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Waking Up from the American Nightmare: Is the Dream Home the Ideal Home?
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Stowasser, Nadja
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1584000833982837
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2020, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Abstract
The suburb, with its large homes, quiet cul-de-sacs and happy nuclear families has long been portrayed as an integral part of the American Dream; embodying the freedom and status that accompanies the ideal of middle class homeownership. Yet with the passing of time the rules and regulations that have shaped the suburb, and its homes, became more stringent and restrictive in an effort to create an ever more ideal living space. In doing so, these regulations have created not a pastoral utopia but vast expanses of sprawl that are accessible only by automobile, lack pedestrians and a vibrant street life, and fervently separates the location of daily activities a car ride apart. The individual home has suffered equally, becoming one house that is repeated with only minor alterations and valued more for its size and curb appeal than for its practical functionality.
Committee
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
Pages
152 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
suburbs
;
American Dream
;
New Urbanism
;
retrofitting the suburbs
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Stowasser, N. (2020).
Waking Up from the American Nightmare: Is the Dream Home the Ideal Home?
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1584000833982837
APA Style (7th edition)
Stowasser, Nadja.
Waking Up from the American Nightmare: Is the Dream Home the Ideal Home?
2020. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1584000833982837.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Stowasser, Nadja. "Waking Up from the American Nightmare: Is the Dream Home the Ideal Home?" Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1584000833982837
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Waking Up from the American Nightmare: Is the Dream Home the Ideal Home? by Nadja Stowasser is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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