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Article: The great American dream.(The Modern American House: Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity)(Book review)
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- The Architectural Review
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- June 1, 2007
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THE MODERN AMERICAN HOUSE: SPACIOUSNESS AND MIDDLE CLASS IDENTITY
By Sany Isenstadt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. [pounds sterling]55
Spaciousness, argues Sandy Isenstadt in The Modern American House, is derived from an illusion rather than the quantity of space. Architecture helps to sustain this illusion, but the complex historical process which he holds responsible for this definition of spaciousness draws on wider territory. Some of its roots lie in the nexus of ideas which gave birth to the American republic, in particular the concept of a property-owning democracy, but it also reaches into the nebulous domain of the 'Great American ...