Stefano Mirtis

Blueberries
Levittown
202/388
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The family that had the greatest impact on
postwar housing in the United States was Abraham
Levitt and his sons, William and Alfred, who
ultimately built more than 180,000 houses and
turned a cottage industry into a major
manufacturing process.

~ Kenneth Jackson
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1947, Levittown, NY, United States
William Levitt, Levittown
William Jaird Levitt (February 11, 1907 January
28, 1994) was an American real-estate developer
widely credited as the father of modern American
suburbia. He came to symbolize the new suburban
growth with his use of mass-production techniques
to construct large developments of houses selling
for under $10,000.
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-an Early Family Poses in Front of their 1948 Cape
Cod house-
Many other relatively inexpensive suburban
developments soon appeared throughout the
country. While he did not invent the building of
communities of affordable single-family homes
within driving distance of major areas of
employment, his innovations in providing
affordable housing popularized this type of
planned community in the years following World
War II. His legacy remains criticized for its long-
term effects of replacing farmland with suburban
sprawl.
-aerial view of Levittown, June, 1948-
His nicknames included "The King Of Suburbia" and
"Inventor of the Suburb." At his height, when he
was building one suburban house every 16
minutes, he compared his successes to those of
Henry Ford's automobile assembly line.
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1947, Levittown, NY, United States
William Levitt, Levittown
In achieving his housing development success, he
also became one of the visible examples of the
prevailing business practice of many contemporary
real estate developers of the era to cater to the
common racism of his intended clientele,
developing "white-only" enclaves in the
neighborhoods he created. Environmentalists also
find issue with the suburban lifestyle he helped to
create.
These instant neighborhoods and towns sprang up
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to meet the housing demand of millions of postwar
Baby Boom families. Designed to be built at
maximum speed and minimum cost, the houses are
little boxesall made out of ticky-tacky, as the
song went, and they all look just the same--as in
this 1951 view of the most famous planned
community of them all: Levittown, New York.
(National Archives)
More on William Levitt: http://www.time.com/...
/article/0,9171,989781-1,00.html
And here some images: http://tigger.uic.
edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html