Second suburb Levittown, Pennsylvania / edited by Dianne Harris.
| Other author | Harris, Dianne Suzette. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, |
| Description | xiv, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Levittown, Pennsylvania |
| Series | Culture, 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010002368 |
| ISBN | 9780822943891 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822943891 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |