@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt83jhq9.3, ISBN = {9780822943891}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt83jhq9.3}, abstract = {In retrospect, it is hard to imagine that so little was made of so much. The aerial views—endless, tiny, indistinguishable houses scattered across a bare landscape to the horizon—set the tone. Three varied developments in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were reduced to a single collective: Levittown. It was a place where one “sleepwalk[ed] into home ownership,” seizing a bit of the timeless “American Dream,” the desire to own a single-family house that is apparently built into Americans’ DNA, since it appears to have had no beginning and no cause and since it can be fulfilled only}, author = {Dell Upton and Dell Upton}, booktitle = {Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania}, pages = {vii--xii}, publisher = {University of Pittsburgh Press}, title = {Foreword}, year = {2010} }