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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

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

Subject:

Levittown (Pa.)
City and town life--Levittown.--Levittown.
Suburban homes--Levittown.--Levittown.
Architecture and society--Levittown.--Levittown.
City planning--Levittown.--Levittown.

Other Authors:

Harris, Dianne Suzette.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Culture, politics, and the built environment

ISBN:

0822943891
9780822943891 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)468973467

LCCN:

2010002368

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)