A New Blueprint for Levittown

摘要

The blueprint for the postwar American way of life was written in the culs-de-sac of new developments like Levit- town, N.Y., the Long Island community that calls itself the country's first suburb. Beginning in 1947, developer Bill Levitt's armies of builders churned out house after house, transforming a bare potato field into a centrally planned town that today is home to 53,000 people.