@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt83jhq9.11, ISBN = {9780822943891}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt83jhq9.11}, abstract = {When plans for Levittown, Pennsylvania, were announced in late August 1951, the name was already famous across the nation and abroad. Levitt & Sons had emerged during the post–World War II years as the largest builder of houses in the United States. The first Levittown, in Nassau County, Long Island, begun in May 1947 and now nearing completion, consisted of 17,447 freestanding, single-family houses forming an unincorporated community of some 75,000 people—the biggest such endeavor to be consummated by a single developer. The size of that project, the speed and efficiency with which it was built, the quality}, author = {Richard Longstreth and Dell Upton}, booktitle = {Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania}, pages = {123--174}, publisher = {University of Pittsburgh Press}, title = {The Levitts, Mass-Produced Houses, and Community Planning in the Mid-twentieth Century}, year = {2010} }