Second suburb
Subtitle: Levittown, Pennsylvania
By: edited by Dianne Harris.
Contributors: Harris, Dianne Suzette.
Series: Culture, politics, and the built environment
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780822943891
Subjects: City and town life -- Pennsylvania -- Levittown; Suburban homes -- Pennsylvania -- Levittown; Architecture and society -- Pennsylvania -- Levittown; City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Levittown; Levittown (Pa.)
Other titles: Levittown, Pennsylvania
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A second suburb / Dianne Harris; title: Looking at Levittown from the inside. Revealing the history of Levittown, one voice at a time / Chad M. Kimmel; title: Reflections on Levittown / Daisy D. Myers; title: Levittown, my Levittown / Bill Griffith; title: Levittown in photographs / compiled by Dianne Harris; title: Looking at Levittown from the outside. The Levitts, mass-produced houses, and community planning in the mid-twentieth century / Richard Longstreth; title: Jim Crow's last stand : the struggle to integrate Levittown / Thomas J. Sugrue; title: "The house I live in" : architecture, modernism, and identity in Levittown / Dianne Harris; title: Pink kitchens for little boxes : the evolution of 1950s kitchen design in Levittown / Curtis Miner; title: Suburban nature, class, and environmentalism in Levittown / Cristopher Sellers; title: More than ticky tacky : Venturi, Scott Brown, and learning from the Levittown studio / Jessica Lautin; title: "No gas, my ass!" Marking the end of the postwar period in Levittown / Chad M. Kimmel; title: Epilogue. The suburbs of desire / Peter Fritzsche.