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[[Image:LevittownPA.jpg|thumb|250px|Levittown PA]] '''Levittown''' is the name of several [[new town]]s in [[New York]] ([[Long Island]]), [[Pennsylvania]], [[New Jersey]]<ref>The New Jersey development has reverted to the area's original name, Willingboro</ref> and [[Puerto Rico]], which were developed by William J Levitt in the late 1940s and 1950s; the Pennsylvania development was the largest planned community in the United States created by a single developer, providing over 17,000 family homes and community facilities on a 5,500 acre site. The homes were inexpensive and appealed to young couples or young families.  Levittowns came to symbolise post-war American suburbia (the name was used as a generic term for privately-developed suburban districts), and were criticised for providing a sterile environment and conformist atmosphere, in which a uniformity of age range, occupational habit and political allegiance (assumed to be [[Republican]]) would stifle diversity of thought. However, subsequent sociological studies of post-war suburbs have shown these assumptions to be incorrect.

[[Image:LevittownPA.jpg|thumb|250px|Levittown PA]] '''Levittown''' is the name of several [[new town]]s in [[New York]] ([[Long Island]]), [[Pennsylvania]], [[New Jersey]]<ref>The New Jersey development has reverted to the area's original name, Willingboro</ref> and [[Puerto Rico]], which were developed by William J Levitt in the late 1940s and 1950s; the Pennsylvania development was the largest planned community in the United States created by a single developer, providing over 17,000 family homes and community facilities on a 5,500 acre site. The homes were inexpensive and appealed to young couples or young families.  Levittowns came to symbolise post-war American suburbia (the name was used as a generic term for privately-developed suburban districts), and were criticised for providing a sterile environment and conformist atmosphere, in which a uniformity of age range, occupational habit and political allegiance (assumed to be [[Republican]]) would stifle diversity of thought. However, subsequent sociological studies of post-war suburbs have shown these assumptions to be incorrect.

==Further Information==

==Notes==

*http://server1.fandm.edu/levittown/

 

==External links==

*http://server1.fandm.edu/levittown

*http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html

*http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html

*http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/levittown.htm

*http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/levittown.htm

[[Category:Urban Planning]]

[[Category:Urban Planning]]

[[Category:1950s]]

[[Category:1950s]]

[[Category:New Jersey]]

[[Category:New Jersey]]