Contents
Foreword / Dell Upton
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: A Second Suburb / Dianne Harris
Part I. Looking at Levittown from the Inside
2. Revealing the History of Levittown, One Voice at a Time / Chad M. Kimmel
3. Reflections on Levittown / Daisy D. Myers
4. Levittown, My Levittown / Bill Griffith
5. Levittown in Photographs / Compiled by Dianne Harris
Part II. Looking at Levittown from the Outside
6. The Levitts, Mass-Produced Houses, and Community Planning in the Mid-twentieth Century / Richard Longstreth
7. Jim Crow’s Last Stand: The Struggle to Integrate Levittown / Thomas J. Sugrue
8. “The House I Live In": Architecture, Modernism, and Identity in Levittown / Dianne Harris
9. Pink Kitchens for Little Boxes: The Evolution of 1950s Kitchen Design in Levittown / Curtis Miner
10. Suburban Nature, Class, and Environmentalism in Levittown / Christopher Sellers
11. More Than Ticky Tacky: Venturi, Scott Brown, and Learning from the Levittown Studio / Jessica Lautin
12. “No Gas, My Ass!” Marking the End of the Postwar Period in Levittown / Chad M. Kimmel
Epilogue: The Suburbs of Desire / Peter Fritzsche
Notes
Contributors
Index