Hayden, Dolores

Ms. Hayden, an urban historian and architect, is the author of several award-winning books about American landscapes and the politics of the built environment. Her latest book is A Field Guide to Sprawl, a “devil’s dictionary” of bad building patterns illustrated with color aerial photography by Jim Wark (Norton, 2004), the subject of an exhibition at Yale in 2007. That book and Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000, a history of seven American landscapes (Pantheon Books, 2003, Vintage, 2004) were both selected as “Top Ten Books in Urban Studies.” Among her earlier books, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (MIT Press, 1995) explores urban memory, through public art and preservation in multiple ethnic communities in downtown Los Angeles. Gender and space are the subjects of The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (MIT Press, 1981) and Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, Work, and Family Life (Norton, 1985; revised and expanded, 2002). Ms. Hayden has been a Guggenheim fellow as well as receiving Rockefeller, NEH, NEA, and ACLS/Ford fellowships. Since 1973, Ms. Hayden has held academic appointments in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and American studies in a teaching career that has spanned MIT, UC Berkeley, and UCLA as well as Yale. In 2006–2007, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.