SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - January 30, Front Yard
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Lecture 4 jan30 two prototypes of suburbs (one u. s. , one from canada) Name came from 2 brothers bill & alfred levitt; 1946 levittown, ny (long island) vs. levittown new jersey and pennsylvania. Levitt brothers had been developers before the wwii back in the 1930s and they had a construction company. In the 1930s, they were building upper-middle class suburbs. When they were building them, they built it in the traditional way i. e. big land divided into parcels and selling them off one by one to small scale house builders: what happened in the wwii changed them. They received a government contract to build over 2300 mass produced homes (on temporary basis for war effort workers) for the government in virginia. They learned during this experience how to cut construction industry through standardization: then came the end of wwii along with the large demand of suburban housing.
