Levittown- By Jolie Nelson

Levittown is the model on which scores of post world war II suburban communities were based. It started out as an experiment in low-cost, mass produced housing. It practically became the most famous suburban development in the world.

It was built by William Levitt and his family. They offered affordable housing to returning GIs and their families in the form of small, detached, single-family houses.Levitt combined the idealized middle-class life of the prewar suburban communities with the democratized life of younger, mainly urban-raised GIs and their families.