Urban development style created by
William Levitt in the post-war
1950s. Levitt wanted an affordable, community-centered
suburbia where returning
GIs could raise their families. Levittowns were a
homogenous and often
monotonous pattern of freshly cut lawns and single-family homes along clean, curvilinear drives. The Levittown remains the model for all modern
subdivisions in their placid,
Borg-like homogeneity.
See:
middle class,
Canton, Michigan