A collection of essays from both established and younger scholars from a variety of disciplines address the relationship between gender and projects of social transformation through architecture, design and urban planning.

Section 1. Introduction. Section 2. Civilization/Degeneration: Desire and Repulsion in the Modern City. Section 3. At Home in Public. Section 4. Esprit de Corps and Esprit Decor: Domesticity, Community and Creative Autonomy in the Building of Female Public Identity. Section 5. Embodying Urban Design. Section 6. Haunting the City. Section 7. The Time of Architecture. Index.

Rebecca Zorach, Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders