From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development. Parents obsess

The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made fo

Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Mate

The book examines individual and collective visions for the material world of children, from utopian dreams for the citizens of the future to the dark realities

A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in