| Description |
xxii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-289) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The Gold Coast. --2. The second Industrial Revolution: mass production makes a dent. --3. Suburban birth pangs. --4. Housing the masses: ideas and experiments. --5. The New Deal: one third of a nation still unhoused. --6. The common good: public or private. --7. World War II: baptism by fire. --8. Postwar housing politics: the McCarthy hearings on housing. --9. Home ownership: is it sound? --10. The master builders and the creation of modern suburbia. --11. The new suburban culture: living in Levittown. --12. America, love it or levitt. --13. Suburban segregation. --14. The battle for integration. --15. Old towns, new families. --16. Utopia revisited. --17. New immigrants. |
| Subject |
Suburbs -- New York (State) -- Long Island.
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Suburban life -- New York (State) -- Long Island.
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Suburbs -- United States.
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Suburban life -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Ewen, Elizabeth.
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| ISBN |
0465070450 |
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9780465070459 |
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0465070132 |
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9780465070138 |
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