Second suburb : Levittown, Pennsylvania /

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Carved from eight square miles of Bucks County farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fulfillment of the American dream. Begun in 1952, after the completion of an identically named community on Long Island, the second Levittown soon eclip...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harris, Dianne Suzette
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
Colección:Culture, politics, and the built environment.
Temas:
City and town life > Pennsylvania > Levittown.
Suburban homes > Pennsylvania > Levittown.
Architecture and society > Pennsylvania > Levittown.
City planning > Pennsylvania > Levittown.
Vie urbaine > Pennsylvanie > Levittown.
Architecture et société > Pennsylvanie > Levittown.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
ARCHITECTURE > General.
Architecture and society.
City and town life.
City planning.
Suburban homes.
Levittown (Pa.)
Pennsylvania > Levittown.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : A second suburb / Dianne Harris
  • pt. 1. Looking at Levittown from the inside
  • Revealing the history of Levittown, one voice at a time / Chad M. Kimmel
  • Reflections on Levittown / Daisy D. Myers
  • Levittown, my Levittown / Bill Griffith
  • Levittown in photographs / compiled by Dianne Harris
  • pt. 2. Looking at Levittown from the outside
  • The Levitts, mass-produced houses, and community planning in the mid-twentieth century / Richard Longstreth
  • Jim Crow's last stand : the struggle to integrate Levittown / Thomas J. Sugrue
  • "The house I live in" : architecture, modernism, and identity in Levittown / Dianne Harris
  • Pink kitchens for little boxes : the evolution of 1950s kitchen design in Levittown / Curtis Miner
  • Suburban nature, class, and environmentalism in Levittown / Cristopher Sellers
  • More than ticky tacky : Venturi, Scott Brown, and learning from the Levittown studio / Jessica Lautin
  • "No gas, my ass!" Marking the end of the postwar period in Levittown / Chad M. Kimmel
  • Epilogue : The suburbs of desire / Peter Fritzsche.

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