Second Suburb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Second Suburb write by Dianne Harris. This book was released on 2013-11-06. Second Suburb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 this planned community in two parts. The first examines Levittown from the inside, including oral histories of residents recalling how Levittown shaped their lives. One such reminiscence is by Daisy Myers, part of the first African American family to move to the community, only to become the targets of a race riot that would receive international publicity. The book also includes selections from the syndicated comic strip Zippy the Pinhead, in which Bill Griffith reflects on the angst-ridden trials of growing up in a Levittown, and an extensive photo essay of neighborhood homes, schools, churches, parks, and swimming pools, collected by Dianne Harris. The second part of the book views Levittown from the outside. Contributors consider the community's place in planning and architectural history and the Levitts' strategies for the mass production of housing. Other chapters address the class stratification of neighborhood sections through price structuring; individual attempts to personalize a home's form and space as a representation of class and identity; the builders' focus on the kitchen as the centerpiece of the home and its greatest selling point; the community's environmental and ecological legacy; racist and exclusionary sales policies; resident activism during the gas riots of 1979; and "America's lost Eden." Bringing together some of the top scholars in architectural history, American studies, and landscape studies, Second Suburb explores the surprisingly rich interplay of design, technology, and social response that marks the emergence and maturation of an exceptionally potent rendition of the American Dream.
Levittown
Levittown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Levittown write by David Kushner. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Levittown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the decade after World War II, one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home, not just any home, but a good one, with all the modern conveniences. The Levitts--two brothers, William and Alfred, and their father, Abe--pooled their talents in land use, architecture, and sales to create story book town with affordable little houses. They laid out the welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-only policy. This is the story that unfolded in Levittown, PA, one unseasonably hot summer in 1957 on a quiet street called Deepgreen Lane. There, a white Jewish Communist family named Wechsler secretly arranged for a black family, the Myers, to buy the little pink house next door. What followed was an explosive summer of violence that would transform their lives, and the nation. It would lead to the downfall of a titan, and the integration of the most famous suburb in the world. It's a story of hope and fear, invention and rebellion, and the power that comes when ordinary people take an extraordinary stand.
Westchester
Westchester - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Westchester write by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 2006. Westchester available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A companion to an exhibition at The Hudson River Museum, a collection of original essays accompanies an array of photographs, paintings, maps, ephemera, and other images that capture the growth, development, and transformation of the suburban New York community of Westchester over the course of a more than a century. Simultaneous.
Second Suburb
Second Suburb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Second Suburb write by Dianne Suzette Harris. This book was released on 2010. Second Suburb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history.
First (-Sixth) geographical reader. [With] Home-lesson book for Second (-Fourth) geographical reader
First (-Sixth) geographical reader. [With] Home-lesson book for Second (-Fourth) geographical reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First (-Sixth) geographical reader. [With] Home-lesson book for Second (-Fourth) geographical reader write by Blackwood William and sons. This book was released on 1883. First (-Sixth) geographical reader. [With] Home-lesson book for Second (-Fourth) geographical reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
