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Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania (Culture Politics & the Built Environment)
Dianne Harris
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Description for Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania (Culture Politics & the Built Environment)
Paperback. "Second Suburb" uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history. Editor(s): Harris, Dianne. Series: Culture, Politics and the Built Environment. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AMX; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 179 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1148.
Carved from eight square miles of Bucks County farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fulfillment of the American dream. Begun in 1952, after the completion of an identically named community on Long Island, the second Levittown soon eclipsed its New York counterpart in scale and ambition, yet it continues to live in the shadow of its better-known sister and has received limited scholarly attention. Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history.
The volume offers a fascinating profile of ... Read more
Carved from eight square miles of Bucks County farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fulfillment of the American dream. Begun in 1952, after the completion of an identically named community on Long Island, the second Levittown soon eclipsed its New York counterpart in scale and ambition, yet it continues to live in the shadow of its better-known sister and has received limited scholarly attention. Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history.
The volume offers a fascinating profile of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Culture, Politics and the Built Environment
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822962816
SKU
V9780822962816
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About Dianne Harris
Dianne Harris is a senior program officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she focuses on higher education and scholarship in the humanities. From 2015–2017 she served as dean of the College of Humanities and as professor of history at the Univer
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