Herb Childress is an architectural consultant and has a Ph.D. in Environment-Behavior Studies from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

"Childress weaves engaging stories through and around the teenagers whose everyday lives are represented by this book. The power of his narrative resides in part on his ability to raise profound issues from seemingly mundane occurrences. He avoids over-theorizing the teenagers' experiences and yet, at the same time, he is able to highlight their senses of self and place in the world. And the awful context that surfaces from his stories is that these teenagers are, for the most part, betrayed by our adult world (how it is planned, designed, and institutionalized) and the society (family, home, and community) we embrace." — Stuart C. Aitken, author of Family Fantasies and Community Space"Our social and physical environments are a mess. Teenagers are sorely neglected, and Childress conveys the feeling that there is much that could so easily be done if we weren't so 'bloody fearful' about life. Educators, planners, designers, and parents should all read this book." — Douglas D. Paterson, University of British Columbia"Childress is a good storyteller; the dialogue and the vignettes are compelling and evocative." — Lynn Paxson, Iowa State University

• Introduction Foreword Acknowledgments Preface1. Woven Stories, Woven Lives2. Reading CurtisvillePart One - Around Town3. The American Dream4. The Working Life5. I Love this Car, Man6. One Night in Manoa7. The Dead Zone8. Birthday at Oyster Beach9. They're Breaking Up that Old Gang of MinePart Two - At School10. Kirk's School Days11. Free Public Assembly12. Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain13. Take Your Seats, Please14. The Domain of the Greeks15. The Passion Pit16. Convenience Store OrphansPart Three - At Home17. Negotiations and Boundaries18. Twelve Rooms19. The Irrelevant Neighborhood20. Other People's Houses I: Dad's House21. Other People's Houses II: Tami's Weekend22. Other People's Houses III: Julian's HousePart Four - After the Fact23. The Hidden Program of the High School (or Six Metaphors in Search of a Box)24. A Teenage Acre25. November 18th, Where Joy was Found26. Collaborators27. Rereading CurtisvilleNotesBibliography Index

Herb Childress is an architectural consultant and has a Ph.D. in Environment-Behavior Studies from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

"Childress weaves engaging stories through and around the teenagers whose everyday lives are represented by this book. The power of his narrative resides in part on his ability to raise profound issues from seemingly mundane occurrences. He avoids over-theorizing the teenagers' experiences and yet, at the same time, he is able to highlight their senses of self and place in the world. And the awful context that surfaces from his stories is that these teenagers are, for the most part, betrayed by our adult world (how it is planned, designed, and institutionalized) and the society (family, home, and community) we embrace." — Stuart C. Aitken, author of Family Fantasies and Community Space"Our social and physical environments are a mess. Teenagers are sorely neglected, and Childress conveys the feeling that there is much that could so easily be done if we weren't so 'bloody fearful' about life. Educators, planners, designers, and parents should all read this book." — Douglas D. Paterson, University of British Columbia"Childress is a good storyteller; the dialogue and the vignettes are compelling and evocative." — Lynn Paxson, Iowa State University

• Introduction Foreword Acknowledgments Preface1. Woven Stories, Woven Lives2. Reading CurtisvillePart One - Around Town3. The American Dream4. The Working Life5. I Love this Car, Man6. One Night in Manoa7. The Dead Zone8. Birthday at Oyster Beach9. They're Breaking Up that Old Gang of MinePart Two - At School10. Kirk's School Days11. Free Public Assembly12. Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain13. Take Your Seats, Please14. The Domain of the Greeks15. The Passion Pit16. Convenience Store OrphansPart Three - At Home17. Negotiations and Boundaries18. Twelve Rooms19. The Irrelevant Neighborhood20. Other People's Houses I: Dad's House21. Other People's Houses II: Tami's Weekend22. Other People's Houses III: Julian's HousePart Four - After the Fact23. The Hidden Program of the High School (or Six Metaphors in Search of a Box)24. A Teenage Acre25. November 18th, Where Joy was Found26. Collaborators27. Rereading CurtisvilleNotesBibliography Index

Herb Childress is an architectural consultant and has a Ph.D. in Environment-Behavior Studies from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

"Childress weaves engaging stories through and around the teenagers whose everyday lives are represented by this book. The power of his narrative resides in part on his ability to raise profound issues from seemingly mundane occurrences. He avoids over-theorizing the teenagers' experiences and yet, at the same time, he is able to highlight their senses of self and place in the world. And the awful context that surfaces from his stories is that these teenagers are, for the most part, betrayed by our adult world (how it is planned, designed, and institutionalized) and the society (family, home, and community) we embrace." — Stuart C. Aitken, author of Family Fantasies and Community Space"Our social and physical environments are a mess. Teenagers are sorely neglected, and Childress conveys the feeling that there is much that could so easily be done if we weren't so 'bloody fearful' about life. Educators, planners, designers, and parents should all read this book." — Douglas D. Paterson, University of British Columbia"Childress is a good storyteller; the dialogue and the vignettes are compelling and evocative." — Lynn Paxson, Iowa State University

• Introduction Foreword Acknowledgments Preface1. Woven Stories, Woven Lives2. Reading CurtisvillePart One - Around Town3. The American Dream4. The Working Life5. I Love this Car, Man6. One Night in Manoa7. The Dead Zone8. Birthday at Oyster Beach9. They're Breaking Up that Old Gang of MinePart Two - At School10. Kirk's School Days11. Free Public Assembly12. Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain13. Take Your Seats, Please14. The Domain of the Greeks15. The Passion Pit16. Convenience Store OrphansPart Three - At Home17. Negotiations and Boundaries18. Twelve Rooms19. The Irrelevant Neighborhood20. Other People's Houses I: Dad's House21. Other People's Houses II: Tami's Weekend22. Other People's Houses III: Julian's HousePart Four - After the Fact23. The Hidden Program of the High School (or Six Metaphors in Search of a Box)24. A Teenage Acre25. November 18th, Where Joy was Found26. Collaborators27. Rereading CurtisvilleNotesBibliography Index