Levittown
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Levittown is the name of four large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt
and his company Levitt & Sons. They featured large numbers of similar houses that were built easily and quickly, allowing rapid recovery of costs.
William Levitt
William Jaird Levitt was an American real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. He came to symbolize the new suburban growth with his use of mass-production techniques to construct large developments of houses selling for under $10,000...
and his company Levitt & Sons. They featured large numbers of similar houses that were built easily and quickly, allowing rapid recovery of costs.
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