Architecture and suburbia: from English villa to American dream house, 1690--2000

Self, house, and suburb

Built spaces and identity

I: Eighteenth-century England: the genesis of the Bourgeois dwelling

Locating the self in space

Villa suburbana, terra suburbana

The apparatus of selfhood

II: Nineteenth-century America: republican homes in Arcadian suburbs

Republican pastoral: toward a bourgeois Arcadia

Suburbanizing the self

III: Twentieth-century America: the dream house ideal and the suburban landscape

Nationalizing the dream

Analyzing the dream

Reframing suburbia

Coda: looking ahead.