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. Many other relatively inexpensive suburban developments soon appeared throughout the country. While he didn't invent the building of communities of affordable single-family homes within driving distance of major areas of employment, his innovations in providing affordable housing popularized this type of planned community in the years following
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He has been called 'The King Of Suburbia' , 'Inventor of the Suburb', and in his lifetime had a cover story on Time Magazine July 3, 1950.
