The Evolution Of Suburbia

The story of Levittown, PA., symbolizes the transformation of the American landscape.

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May 20, 2002, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Levittown, Pa., the baby-boom planned community, takes its rightful place in history as an exhibit shows how "cookie-cutter" housing evolved into a vital neighborhood...The "Levittowns" - there were three in all...came to symbolize the American landscape's transformation through the mass movement of city dwellers to the new suburbs, the largest such migration in the nation's history."

Thanks to Linda LaSut

FULL STORY: How suburbia sprang forth

Friday, May 17, 2002 in The Philadelphia Inquirer

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