Second suburb Levittown, Pennsylvania / edited by Dianne Harris.

Other author Harris, Dianne Suzette.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,
Descriptionxiv, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Portion of title Levittown, Pennsylvania
SeriesCulture, politics, and the built environment
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.
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LCCN 2010002368
ISBN9780822943891 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822943891

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