The American Single-Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Over the course of the twentieth-century, the primary path toward the ‘good life’ in the United States involved the purchase of a single family home in the suburbs, which promised financial security, social independence and access to a healthy environmental and verdant greenspace. But the system that developed was also built on racial exclusion and unsustainable and environmentally destructive levels of resource consumption. An examination of the spaces of the single-family home shows the challenges in creating a just and sustainable good life, as the social meaning and material realities of the system become intimately tied together. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .
Source: Global Environment
Author: Rob Gioielli
Institution: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411273845