suburbs

Design for the Real World: Tract Houses

Arts, Culture & Media

D. J. Waldie loves the suburbs. He was born in one of the tract houses manufactured by the thousands in Lakewood, California. He lives there still, and today works for the city. His book Holy Land is a strange and beautiful mix of personal memoir and suburban history. Waldie tells us why the cheap tract […]

A house in Levittown, NY.

Levittown and the rise of the American suburb

Culture
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