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Second suburb : Levittown, Pennsylvania / edited by Dianne Harris.

Contributor Harris, Dianne Suzette.

Imprint:Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

Descriptionxiv, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Note:Introduction. A second suburb / Dianne Harris -- 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 -- 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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Contributor
Harris, Dianne Suzette.
Title:
Levittown, Pennsylvania
Series Statement
Culture, politics, and the built environment
Subject:
City and town life -- Pennsylvania -- Levittown.
Suburban homes -- Pennsylvania -- Levittown.
Architecture and society -- Pennsylvania -- Levittown.
City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Levittown.
Levittown (Pa.)