Dolores Hayden is an American professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is an urban historian, architect, author, and poet. Hayden has made innovative contributions to the understanding of the social importance of urban space and to the history of the built environment in the United States.
Background
Hayden received her B.A. from
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.
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in 1966. She also studied at
Cambridge University
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and the
Harvard Graduate School of Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...
where she obtained her professional degree in architecture. She is the widow of sociologist and novelist, Peter H. Marris and is the mother of Laura Hayden Marris.
Career
Since 1973, Hayden has held academic appointments at
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...
,
UC Berkeley
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,
UCLA
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, and Yale. She has taught courses in architecture, urban landscapes, urban planning, and American studies.
She founded a Los Angeles-based non-profit arts and humanities group called ''The Power of Place'' which was active from 1984 to 1991. The goal of the organization was to, "celebrate the historic landscape of the center of the city and its ethnic diversity. Under her direction, collaborative projects on an African American midwife's homestead, a Latina garment workers' union headquarters, and Japanese-American flower fields engaged citizens, historians, artists, and designers in examining and commemorating the working lives of ordinary citizens." This is documented in the text, ''The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History.''
Awards
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American Library Association Notable Book American Library Association Notable lists are announced each year in January by various divisions within the American Library Association (ALA). There are six lists, part of the larger ALA awards structure.
* ''ALA Notable Books for Adults'' (est ...
*Award for Excellence in Design Research from the National Endowment for the Arts
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Paul Davidoff
Paul Davidoff (February 14, 1930 – December 27, 1984) was an American planner, planning educator, and planning theoretician who conceptualized " advocacy planning" with his wife, Linda Stone Davidoff. In legal scholarship, he is known as the pr ...
Award for an outstanding book in Urban Planning from the ACSP
*Diana Donald Award for feminist scholarship from the
American Planning Association
The American Planning Association (APA) is a professional organization representing the field of urban planning in the United States. APA was formed in 1978, when two separate professional planning organizations, the American Institute of Pla ...
Selected bibliography
Books
*''Exuberance: Poems'', Red Hen Press, 2019.
*''American Yard: Poems'', 2004.
* ''A Field Guide to Sprawl'', W W Norton, 2004.
* ''Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000'', Pantheon, 2003.
* ''Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life'', W W Norton, 1984, rev. ed. 2002.
* ''The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History'', MIT Press, 1995.
* ''The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities'', MIT Press, 1981.
* ''Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975'', MIT Press, 1976.
Chapters
* 'Challenging the American Domestic Ideal', featured in ''Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective'' (1977)
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Catharine Beecher
Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's ...
and the Politics of Housework', featured in ''Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective'' (1977)
Articles
* —— (1980).
What Would a Non-Sexist City Look Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work. 5 (3): S170–S187. JSTOR 3173814.
References
External links
What Would a Non-Sexist City Look Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human WorkVideo: Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawnat LIVE from the New York Public Library, March 7, 2008
Official site Yale "Gender Matters articleInterview on Weekend AmericaSeptember 27, 2008
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Urban theorists
Mount Holyoke College alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
Yale School of Architecture faculty
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
21st-century American historians
American women historians
Historians of urban planning
MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty
21st-century American women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Materialist feminists
American women poets