Synopsis
Small homes, big questions: what tiny living says about the future of housing.
Tiny houses have become a viral sensation, representing everything from off-grid freedom to a desperate solution for housing insecurity. But what is life really like inside them? In Reconstructing the American Dream, Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki, Tim White, and Cian Oba-Smith take readers beyond the Instagram aesthetic to explore the realities of tiny living in Texas. Through striking photography and deeply personal accounts, the book examines who chooses to "go tiny" and who is pushed into it, how these homes function as both countercultural retreats and reflections of a shrinking American Dream, and why the movement embodies contradictions at every turn. Drawing on urban studies, sociology, and geography, the authors reveal the economic and political forces that have made tiny housing both an alternative to and a symptom of the broader housing crisis. Reconstructing the American Dream is both a collection of compelling stories and beautiful images and a critical analysis of the meaning of home and community in an era of increasing precarity. An insightful reference for housing researchers, urbanists, and anyone questioning what "home" truly means today.Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
À propos des auteurs
Ella Harris is an independent creative researcher Her previous publications include Rebranding Precarity and Encountering the World with i-Docs.
Mel Nowicki is a reader in Urban Geography at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of Bringing Home the Housing Crisis: Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London.
Tim White is a researcher and writer studying housing, cities, and inequality. He is the Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
Cian Oba-Smith is an Irish Nigerian photographer born and raised in London.
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