Loose-fit Urbanism

Abstract

The 1950s bestowed the American dream of homeownership on millions of I families living in crowded city tenement apartments across the United States. That seems very distant now. Only in television shows and movies does the new wood grain-sided station wagon, stacked with kids and boxes, pull out through the crowded streets to the new highway or parkway and then to the Cape Cod-style subdivision outside Chicago, the shingled ranch on Long Island, or the low-slung picture-windowed modern house in California.