Women and the Everyday City (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)

This is a very fascinating book which opens up a whole new way of looking at the American city and how women interact with it. I used the book for a research paper for a graduate university class (the history of popular culture) and I found it very useful and interesting. The focus of this book is on the upper-middle class but I think it would be a good read for anybody who is interested in city life and how women of different classes and ethnicities historically are able to use the public space. The author draws on many sources to create her narrative - I especially enjoyed the research that Sewell had done on ethnic newspapers in San Francisco. All in all, a great book which offers a fresh perspective. As a woman of today, it is interesting to see how women navigated the city in the old days and how women were far from able to go everywhere by themselves.

Definitely thought provoking. A good book for a vacay when you can read...and a good book for just reading. So many observations and insights that make the book worth the price.

Interesting history on women and public spaces. Aware of the subtle influence of design on places I frequent but didn't view it as a valid area of research-- just seemed to mundane.