Second Suburb
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Built on eight square miles of farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fulfilment of the American dream. Begun in 1952, after the completion of an identically named community on Long Island, the second Levittown soon eclipsed its counterpart in scale and ambition, yet it continues to live in the shadow of its better-known sister. Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history.

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Produktbeschreibung
Built on eight square miles of farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fulfilment of the American dream. Begun in 1952, after the completion of an identically named community on Long Island, the second Levittown soon eclipsed its counterpart in scale and ambition, yet it continues to live in the shadow of its better-known sister. Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history.
Autorenporträt
Dianne Harris is professor of landscape architecture, architecture, art history, and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. Harris is the author of numerous publications including The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy, winner of the Society of Architectural Historians Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, and coeditor of Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision.