Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened Book

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Part One The Beginnings
Chapter 1 The Gold Coast	3
Chapter 2 The Second Industrial Revolution: Mass
Production Makes a Dent	14
Chapter 3 Suburban Birth Pangs	23
Part Two New Thoughts, New Deals
Chapter 4 Housing the Masses: Ideas and Experiments	37
Chapter 5 The New Deal: One Third of a Nation Still
Unhoused	51
Chapter 6 The Common Good: Public or Private	67
Chapter 7 World War II: Baptism by Fire	78
Part Three Who Would House the Masses?
Chapter 8 Postwar Housing Politics: The McCarthy
Hearings on Housing	87
Chapter 9 Home Ownership: Is It Sound?	106
Chapter 10 The Master Builders and the Creation of
Modern Suburbia	117
Part Four Suburban Life and Culture, Fifties Style
Chapter 11 The New Suburban Culture: Living in
Levittown	143
Chapter 12 America, Love It or Levitt	158
Part Five Suburbia Speaks
Chapter 13 Suburban Segregation	171
Chapter 14 The Battle for Integration	191
Chapter 15 Old Towns,New Families	210
Part Six Critical Junctions
Chapter 16 Utopia Revisited	227
Chapter 17 New Immigrants	239
Conclusion: Crossroads	251
Endnotes	261
Index	291