@@davehibbs9111 because the homes do not compare in quality or style to the surrounding neighborhoods. Lots of drug addicts living there as well. The pipes are all running in the concrete slab... These pipes have expired. I am a general contractor and have addressed numerous levittowners. Everyone in levittown for the last 50 years fancies themselves as contractors. You should see some of the "work" that has been done to an already poorly built house. Also....the rusted and twisted chain link fence everywhere. Pretty much a white ghetto.
To add a little more info to this, Alfred Levitt based the entire design on Frank Lloyd Wright's work. The Levitt brothers were able to take those ideas and turn them into a mass production technique based off of the brothers experiences described in this video.
The homes were built in stages. So the structure would be built first. Then they would come back later and hook up the heating, plumbing and electricity. Then after that the home would be ready to be moved into. Also, these homes came fully furnished with appliances, some even came with TV’s.
WJ Levitt is to housing what Henry Ford was to the automobile. The concept is the same. Mass production at an affordable price. Many of these small houses were sold for under $10,000. Levitt saw the need for affordable housing for the GI's who fought in WW2. All these men wanted was a comfortable home for their wife and kids to grow up in. WJL building firm filled the need successfully. Brilliant indeed. Timing was perfect too.
American suburbs are inconvenient and horrifying. Everything looks identical, nothing comes from the people who actually live there, and since you can't walk, bicycle or use public transit, you're essentially forced to consume a car so you can drive to one of those corporate malls where everything also looks identical and impersonal. I'd choose a European suburb any day of the week.
There was/is a Levittown in New Jersey, but the name only lasted for a few years. It then reverted to the name of the area it was built in, Willingboro.
Oh, really! Well, I was not in AP US history!! I hated American history and my history teacher didn’t like me!! I went to a girls private school, and they never taught us about Levittown! I was raised outside of Philadelphia not very far, not too terribly far from Levitown, PA!… I had heard of Levitown but didn’t know the significance at all of it and how it was made! My parents were in the real estate business, and probably knew all about that! 🤪😀👋👍👌❤️
I took AP US History but we didn’t really cover suburbanization. We did cover a lot of the intricacies of the Civil Rights Movement, which was very interesting and important, but Suburbia is also a huge part of that story
Levitt didn’t have the benefit of hindsight to understand how a bunch of basement dwellers would be enraged at the idea of safe, affordable, and peaceful suburbs where you could be free from the stress of cities. But miserable loves company I guess..
Because of the GI Bill many Korean War Vets were able to buy homes in Levittown in Long Island. That was, of course if you were white. The federal agency issuing the loans knew this and issued them anyway. That was the way the system worked, and that is why people say: Racism is Systemic. The federal agency, the home developers, and the residence of the community worked together to make sure Black Folks who fought the same fight did not enjoy the same right.
Yes many of these not only excluded black families but Southern whites and immigrants. And it was part of the system then but how is it systemic today. Its unlawful to do this now
@@theozchannel6253 60 years is not that long ago, most of us have a living relative who was around at that time. This means some grandparent were excluded from building wealth. Funny that you mention reverse racism, I guess some ppl want to victims so badly
@@DavidSmith-kq7zx when you compound the amount of wealth these houses generated for the ppl that were allowed to buy them, vs the ones who were denied (many of these ppl are still alive today as well as their children and grand children)... it creates an entire gap in wealth that doesn't just disappear overnight or in a single life time. This is why most suburbs are racially divided today. Also there are still severe cases of redlining going on today which is why the DOJ had to announce a new initiative to keep combating it in 2021
Moving to suburbia left older sections of town crumbled and cruddy looking. Sorry that the cost of keeping those older neighborhoods alive and well is so prohibitive.
Thank you so very much for this great short video about Levitt town! I grew up in Pennsylvania in Philadelphia area and had heard of Levitown, but had no idea what all it was about! I was one of those baby boomers! We were in a Mahone house! A developer in Philadelphia area I guess…
After WWII, houses were basically $100 down, $100 per month if you were a Vet. And white. CCRs in Levittowns were equally restrictive, but the concept would help today, especially if the were multis.
$10,000 in December 1951 = $113,525 in February 2023. Even the cheapest state's (West Virginia) average today is a little higher than that adjusted price.
@TheLusianPopa Not only were the bathrooms basic, there was usually only one bath in a house. My uncle bought a 2 bedroom house in Rahway NJ in 1948. Had 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. He finished the attic into 2 more bedrooms with a sitting room between, but no additional bathroom. Interested readers may want to read the book _The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit_ for an description of life in such a suburb.
The Levitts were the most publicized but hardly the parents of modern suburbia. On the west coast David Bohannon and Henry Dolger, (in SF) and Fritz Burns and especially Ben Weingart (who worked with Burns and a group of over 10 other builders) did all the things the Levitts got credited for but many years prior. They became so efficient at constructing homes in critical defense areas (especially SoCal), the military ended up copying their techniques. In 1950, the year Levitt was credited with leading the nation with building 7,000 homes, Weingart, working with multiple partners, built 8,000 homes in Lakewood Park alone, another 1,000 in Westchester, another 1500 in North Long Beach (DeForest and Haughton Park areas), another 1,000+ in Mar Vista (near Venice), over 2,000 homes in the San Fernando Valley (Encino Park, White Oak Park, Sunland and North Hollywood and even Panorama City. ( Although the last was a Fritz Burns-Henry Kaiser project as Kaiser Community Homes, Weingart's syndicate had bought the land from the previous Panorama Ranch owners, did much of the layout before selling a large part to KCH, and even then retained a 21% ownership in the two KCH development companies - one for residential, and the other for retail.) Weingart, who also owned or managed nearly 100 hotels and apartment hotels in the Los Angeles area, also somehow found the time to build and operate numerous 10-60 garden apartments around this time that are still often seen in numerous movies set in LA, and many are listed as historic structures. He had a huge vertical operation set up - His Junior Capital and Aetna Holdings usually found properties (willing owners - or in many cases multiple owners due to defaults, oil rights, utility rights, etc.) , and then used the cash flow from his hotels enabled him to leverage great financial arrangements (with help of FHA) with all LA banks and insurance companies (especially Prudential) to underwrite loans for construction and mortgages. But while he was very involved with the first steps of any project (and knew the construction business inside out from his days building and renovating hotels), he found it more efficient to form new corporations for each project and let the contractor (all of them competent businessmen in their own right) be the "face" of the project, even when Weingart was the controlling stockholder. He made millions for some of SoCal's biggest builders - Lou Boyar, Mark Boyar, Morris Sommers, Mark Taper, Spiros Ponty, Richard S. Diller, Sidney Kleefeld, J. George Wright, Ed Zuckerman, BR Morris, Arthur Edmunds, Harold Hirsh, Melvin Hirsh, Irving Kalsman, Arthur Weber, Willard Woodrow, Bill Schulhofer, Paul Trousdale and many others. And he worked with many of the top architects - Max Maltzman, JJ Rees, Hugh Gibbs, Paul Duncan, Chuck DuBois. And most of these homes have been built to last -- a $9,000 home in 1949 in Mar Vista, North Long Beach, Encino, Sherman Oaks, Woodland Hills and Granada Hills are now fetching prices of over $2.3 million. And unlike Levitt, Weingart was able to hold on to most of his fortune - when he died in 1980, he was Los Angeles County's largest single taxpayer.
@@gala_mars I guess a better term urban sprawl, which has led to isolation, car centric living, proliferation of parking lots and overall inefficiency of space. There's overall lack of integration, as everything is so spread out and separated. The car centered lifestyle makes it hard for walking, not only because of design, but also with their being less eyes on the street. Sidewalks aren't populated usually, which adds to isolation. I think I was meaning more towards American suburbia, which is usually combined with urban sprawl and car centered design.
@@krunkle5136 Perhaps yea. But remember this was the 1950's. These were people who had lived through the great depression and the second world war. They wanted to raise there kids with a better life than they themselves ever could have. This was also many peoples first change to own there own home and property.
@@raidb0ss29 oh certainly. We have benefit of hindsight. It was something totally new, and idk perhaps it's human nature to want to spread out if enough land is available. If the USA was an island I might've ended up looking like Europe (more condensed etc). Hopefully some solution using this hindsight is made.
I could never live in the suburbs. I hate the thought of neighbors being so close.(especially in south Jersey - you have no privacy or yard space because there is a house beside you and behind and in front) I would rather have a house out near the mountains.
It is not true! Modern suburbs have been long before 1951, however, not many people are interested due to the high cost of houses and cars. What Levitt has done is to make construction costs cheaper and suburbs more accessible. Interstates, low gas and vehicle prices completed the job. It wasn't Levitt who invented modern suburbs.
When one realizes that General Motors was the first publicly held company *_in the world_* to make a profit of US$1 BILLION in a single year, 1956, and compares that to the (of course adjusted for inflation) profits of businesses today, it says a lot about where the money is going. In the mid 50s play and movie, _The Solid Gold Cadillac_ the astounding figure of US$100,000 (one hundred thousand dollars) as a corporate president's salary is mentioned. Compare that to the present CEO testifying before Congress with an annual salary of US$31 million, we know where the money is going. Edit: Emphasis with italics and bold.
Because the economy of the 1950s was the exception, not the rule. Economic rebound from the Great Depression due to a postwar economic boom combined with generous rewards for G.I.s is not the kind of thing that happens often.
Ani Merci I'd bet probably >80% of those suburban families also thought being homosexual was something to be punished for. It's just one of those things that were culturally acceptable back then, and changed now. Are you going to go under everyone's Wikipedia page from that time and add that they were at least a little against gays? No, because it's just something that so many people believed, it was something that was really a name people put on others.
European American Vanguard really? No wonder they hate you so much. Have you visited South Africa? They made some great movies and also have nuclear programs before they destroy it by the white guy (there are still a lot of good white guys. I know. Don't worry)
This was the case for a lot of areas in the 40s-50s, so they may have felt it would've been redundant to mention it. It wouldn't shock me if the person that invented anything else in an older time had outdated views.
It’s easy, eighty years later, to point out the problems with developing suburbs. Prior to the war my father slept with his three brothers in the same bed. There were 11 living on a single floor of an urban triple-decker. He spent the war rolling around the Pacific in destroyer. He returned to the same dump after the war but wanting something better. The suburbs offered him and his new bride something better, a further that was promised after the war.
These homes were built exclusively for white American's. Newsday By Rachelle Blidner Published: Nov. 17, 2019 Vickie Perlongo remembers the first time her daughter saw a black person. Perlongo, who is white and lives in Levittown, took her then-preschool-age daughter shopping in the mid-1980s to a Radio Shack where a black man was working. “Why is his skin a different color?” the daughter asked. “She’d never seen a black person before because she grew up here, and I was surprised,” said Perlongo, 66, a retired nurse who has lived in Levittown for more than 40 years. “I said, ‘Never say that out loud.'” The incident speaks to how few minorities lived in Levittown, a suburb famous for being both the first of its kind and for policies that kept minorities out.
and yet some believe that happiness is only found when connected with nature - we have proved that wrong. Happiness comes from the accumulation of stuff.
Segregation, inequality, obesity, smog, destruction of wilderness, childhood and old age isolation, car dependency, disinvestment in downtown cores, financial insolvency etc etc
@@julianpowers594 then u be the change, dont just sit there and complain... U try be an example by living in the streets with no car, no job, no family... There will be no difference between u and a street dogs...
The homes they built for families were really modest back then. Now days most young people want vaulted ceilings and mini mansions. One reason why housing is so unaffordable.
It’s a problem we have with a lot of things here in America. Out in Europe, people are fine with smaller cars with manual transmissions and less features. But here in America, we all want big SUVs with automatic transmissions and every tech feature…even if you’re single. Thus, there’s no market for affordable basic cars anymore in the US
This was a good idea until single family exclusive zoning became the norm. Balloon Framing construction is inefficient and doesn't hold up well compared to older construction methods. This should have been abandoned in 1967 after the last of the boomers. America's infrastructure is now unsustainable with no room for cars or available energy from the grid.
Hah, levitttown, nice segregated community to escape the evils of failing central cities.Ive spent a good part of my life in an urban area and enjoy the diversity and chaos over my suburban upbringing. Not for everyone but the suburbs were so freaking boring! (FWIW) my old suburban neighborhood has held up well!
There is absolutely nothing wrong in these housing estates...Had I been a young American then, this would sound like paradise. Don't knock what you are jealous of...
Now the American dream has become an American nightmare, cheap housing, Houston about 15 years ago was affordable now, its fucking crazy, by Texas standards, still cheap by U.S. standard
@@ninoy4914 Lol the Netherlands sucks. You think it’s some kind of paradise because it’s full of bicycles lanes? Having your detached property and your own land is the only way to achieve utopia.
Great job creating this dream of inequality and letting it spiral out of control like a tight gambling machine at the casino , thank you for keeping it gangsta ! We owe you so much ! for steering the boat off the rapids !
Yeah so there's plenty of b Black only Or Hispanic only neighborhoods. Where I live here in the Metro Detroit area East Dearborn is almost entirely Arabic there's plenty of places all around the United States like Chinatown for instance where mainly only Chinese people live. What's the matter white people aren't allowed to have that too?
Diego Rangel It's always such a downer when you come to a historical channel to see informative footage, and then some edgy TH-cam kid comes along and just HAS to make a stupid comment.
The Baby Boomers did two important things, new for the human race, but based on the confidence the successes and guts of the Great Generation gave us: 1.) Civil Rights. Hey, we can stop just thinking about it in church, and actually do it in real life! 2.) The anti-War Movement. Hey, this war is a mistake. Nobody wins. Let's stop it! Brand new idea, never or rarely tried. It works. We're going to work out the details for the next hundred years. Both of these built on the best of what went before. both took guts and work. Both are huge wins.
A house in Levittown, NY costs about 500k now. For a 70 year old house.
Wow. Everywhere is expensive now.
Wealth creation
Thanks to the Fed and Congress for devaluing the currency and allow real estate being used for speculation
I wonder why the one in p.a. is less?
@@davehibbs9111 because the homes do not compare in quality or style to the surrounding neighborhoods.
Lots of drug addicts living there as well.
The pipes are all running in the concrete slab...
These pipes have expired.
I am a general contractor and have addressed numerous levittowners.
Everyone in levittown for the last 50 years fancies themselves as contractors.
You should see some of the "work" that has been done to an already poorly built house.
Also....the rusted and twisted chain link fence everywhere.
Pretty much a white ghetto.
To add a little more info to this, Alfred Levitt based the entire design on Frank Lloyd Wright's work. The Levitt brothers were able to take those ideas and turn them into a mass production technique based off of the brothers experiences described in this video.
Yes Levitt were noriously racist
@DynaMike we can definitely decide if someone is bad by their history of actions.
Alfred levitt copied the radiant floor heating from the Roman baths he visited in Bath England.
Thank you so much for the FLW insight and reference! Was it from his Usonian Vision?
@@newjerseylion4804and Jewish.
built an entire house in 1 day? wow! what about the plumbing and electricity?
Yes, that too
The homes were built in stages. So the structure would be built first. Then they would come back later and hook up the heating, plumbing and electricity. Then after that the home would be ready to be moved into. Also, these homes came fully furnished with appliances, some even came with TV’s.
What plumbing?
In 2001-2002 it took us 21 days to completely build a home in the Phoenix metro area.
WJ Levitt is to housing what Henry Ford was to the automobile. The concept is the same. Mass production at an affordable price. Many of these small houses were sold for under $10,000. Levitt saw the need for affordable housing for the GI's who fought in WW2. All these men wanted was a comfortable home for their wife and kids to grow up in. WJL building firm filled the need successfully. Brilliant indeed. Timing was perfect too.
Did he also spied on his workers and shot them when they were protesting ?
@@Lucky70 IDK about that, but he blocked black people from buying homes in suburbs
Also, like Henry Ford, he was a filthy racist!
American suburbs are inconvenient and horrifying. Everything looks identical, nothing comes from the people who actually live there, and since you can't walk, bicycle or use public transit, you're essentially forced to consume a car so you can drive to one of those corporate malls where everything also looks identical and impersonal. I'd choose a European suburb any day of the week.
Black Americans were also prevented from buying any such properties in the suburbs. Ones that did get a piece of that dream faced severe backlash.
Created by a white man for white families to escape.
That's absolutely right, through redlining
A glaring omission really
@@kristalcampbell3650
Why is it so important to live around people you despise?
Guess why?
There was/is a Levittown in New Jersey, but the name only lasted for a few years. It then reverted to the name of the area it was built in, Willingboro.
I remember learning this in Ap Us history. I love this stuff!
Oh, really! Well, I was not in AP US history!! I hated American history and my history teacher didn’t like me!! I went to a girls private school, and they never taught us about Levittown! I was raised outside of Philadelphia not very far, not too terribly far from Levitown, PA!… I had heard of Levitown but didn’t know the significance at all of it and how it was made! My parents were in the real estate business, and probably knew all about that! 🤪😀👋👍👌❤️
Me too, super interesting stuff!
I took AP US History but we didn’t really cover suburbanization. We did cover a lot of the intricacies of the Civil Rights Movement, which was very interesting and important, but Suburbia is also a huge part of that story
when time travel is a thing, we need to go back and lock this dude in a composite safe to ensure we can live in happy, traffic-free bliss today
Love this comment
Agreed, history will judge him harshly.
Levitt didn’t have the benefit of hindsight to understand how a bunch of basement dwellers would be enraged at the idea of safe, affordable, and peaceful suburbs where you could be free from the stress of cities. But miserable loves company I guess..
Because of the GI Bill many Korean War Vets were able to buy homes in Levittown in Long Island. That was, of course if you were white. The federal agency issuing the loans knew this and issued them anyway. That was the way the system worked, and that is why people say: Racism is Systemic. The federal agency, the home developers, and the residence of the community worked together to make sure Black Folks who fought the same fight did not enjoy the same right.
That was 60 or more years ago, this is not the case anywhere anymore in the US, so there is not systemic racism anymore, today there´s reverse racism
@@theozchannel6253 When wasn't there systemic racism,Oswaldo,and SINCE WHEN has there been reverse racism?
Yes many of these not only excluded black families but Southern whites and immigrants. And it was part of the system then but how is it systemic today. Its unlawful to do this now
@@theozchannel6253 60 years is not that long ago, most of us have a living relative who was around at that time. This means some grandparent were excluded from building wealth. Funny that you mention reverse racism, I guess some ppl want to victims so badly
@@DavidSmith-kq7zx when you compound the amount of wealth these houses generated for the ppl that were allowed to buy them, vs the ones who were denied (many of these ppl are still alive today as well as their children and grand children)... it creates an entire gap in wealth that doesn't just disappear overnight or in a single life time. This is why most suburbs are racially divided today. Also there are still severe cases of redlining going on today which is why the DOJ had to announce a new initiative to keep combating it in 2021
No gates, no fences, just grasses on the space.. My dream neighborhood 😌😌😌😌🧡🧡🧡
The moment when you notice that cities, towns and general urban areas looked nicer in the 50's than today...
GJ gov... Good Job...
its the people who are juist tramps, notthe gov fault lol
I hope that they get torn down to the ground! Those houses are now victims of entropy!
It's by design. Suburbs can't maintain their high costs
I disagree.
Cities in particular look WAY nicer back then. In the footage shown here at the beginning it's glaringly obvious what the difference is....
Moving to suburbia left older sections of town crumbled and cruddy looking. Sorry that the cost of keeping those older neighborhoods alive and well is so prohibitive.
I would like to say that I lived in a Levittown, New York for a year or so.
Thank you so very much for this great short video about Levitt town! I grew up in Pennsylvania in Philadelphia area and had heard of Levitown, but had no idea what all it was about! I was one of those baby boomers! We were in a Mahone house! A developer in Philadelphia area I guess…
Suburbs then vs the Suburban Wasteland of today
Yes I prefer the peace and prosperity of the inner city
@@ocsugarI hope you’re joking.. sarcasm doesn’t translate very well into text, and this comment section hasn’t given me hope for humanity
After WWII, houses were basically $100 down, $100 per month if you were a Vet. And white. CCRs in Levittowns were equally restrictive, but the concept would help today, especially if the were multis.
Wow! So we can all conform and be told how unique we are as Americans! Wow!
Some aspects of suburban design are contributing to many of our problems.
@master universe they're talking in cryptic because they don't have a reason...
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar poor use of land space, unwalkability, single family zoning, led to practical monopoly of cars for American transport, etc
@@mashedtomato2079 yes but you're not him, you set an example
@@mashedtomato2079You can walk on outlying areas of major cities, minus stupidly planned ones, that is...
good visually
$10,000 in December 1951 = $113,525 in February 2023.
Even the cheapest state's (West Virginia) average today is a little higher than that adjusted price.
@TheLusianPopa Not only were the bathrooms basic, there was usually only one bath in a house. My uncle bought a 2 bedroom house in Rahway NJ in 1948. Had 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. He finished the attic into 2 more bedrooms with a sitting room between, but no additional bathroom.
Interested readers may want to read the book _The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit_ for an description of life in such a suburb.
Bit too cookie cutter styling for me . No chocolate chippies either .
The Levitts were the most publicized but hardly the parents of modern suburbia. On the west coast David Bohannon and Henry Dolger, (in SF) and Fritz Burns and especially Ben Weingart (who worked with Burns and a group of over 10 other builders) did all the things the Levitts got credited for but many years prior. They became so efficient at constructing homes in critical defense areas (especially SoCal), the military ended up copying their techniques. In 1950, the year Levitt was credited with leading the nation with building 7,000 homes, Weingart, working with multiple partners, built 8,000 homes in Lakewood Park alone, another 1,000 in Westchester, another 1500 in North Long Beach (DeForest and Haughton Park areas), another 1,000+ in Mar Vista (near Venice), over 2,000 homes in the San Fernando Valley (Encino Park, White Oak Park, Sunland and North Hollywood and even Panorama City. ( Although the last was a Fritz Burns-Henry Kaiser project as Kaiser Community Homes, Weingart's syndicate had bought the land from the previous Panorama Ranch owners, did much of the layout before selling a large part to KCH, and even then retained a 21% ownership in the two KCH development companies - one for residential, and the other for retail.) Weingart, who also owned or managed nearly 100 hotels and apartment hotels in the Los Angeles area, also somehow found the time to build and operate numerous 10-60 garden apartments around this time that are still often seen in numerous movies set in LA, and many are listed as historic structures. He had a huge vertical operation set up - His Junior Capital and Aetna Holdings usually found properties (willing owners - or in many cases multiple owners due to defaults, oil rights, utility rights, etc.) , and then used the cash flow from his hotels enabled him to leverage great financial arrangements (with help of FHA) with all LA banks and insurance companies (especially Prudential) to underwrite loans for construction and mortgages. But while he was very involved with the first steps of any project (and knew the construction business inside out from his days building and renovating hotels), he found it more efficient to form new corporations for each project and let the contractor (all of them competent businessmen in their own right) be the "face" of the project, even when Weingart was the controlling stockholder. He made millions for some of SoCal's biggest builders - Lou Boyar, Mark Boyar, Morris Sommers, Mark Taper, Spiros Ponty, Richard S. Diller, Sidney Kleefeld, J. George Wright, Ed Zuckerman, BR Morris, Arthur Edmunds, Harold Hirsh, Melvin Hirsh, Irving Kalsman, Arthur Weber, Willard Woodrow, Bill Schulhofer, Paul Trousdale and many others. And he worked with many of the top architects - Max Maltzman, JJ Rees, Hugh Gibbs, Paul Duncan, Chuck DuBois. And most of these homes have been built to last -- a $9,000 home in 1949 in Mar Vista, North Long Beach, Encino, Sherman Oaks, Woodland Hills and Granada Hills are now fetching prices of over $2.3 million. And unlike Levitt, Weingart was able to hold on to most of his fortune - when he died in 1980, he was Los Angeles County's largest single taxpayer.
This is just like its a wonderful life
Great Handle! ;-)
Suburbia is the slow killer.
Why?
@@gala_mars I guess a better term urban sprawl, which has led to isolation, car centric living, proliferation of parking lots and overall inefficiency of space.
There's overall lack of integration, as everything is so spread out and separated.
The car centered lifestyle makes it hard for walking, not only because of design, but also with their being less eyes on the street. Sidewalks aren't populated usually, which adds to isolation.
I think I was meaning more towards American suburbia, which is usually combined with urban sprawl and car centered design.
@@krunkle5136 Perhaps yea. But remember this was the 1950's. These were people who had lived through the great depression and the second world war. They wanted to raise there kids with a better life than they themselves ever could have. This was also many peoples first change to own there own home and property.
@@raidb0ss29 oh certainly. We have benefit of hindsight. It was something totally new, and idk perhaps it's human nature to want to spread out if enough land is available. If the USA was an island I might've ended up looking like Europe (more condensed etc).
Hopefully some solution using this hindsight is made.
Nope. Suburbs are great
1:07 me when I boot up Sim City
I could never live in the suburbs. I hate the thought of neighbors being so close.(especially in south Jersey - you have no privacy or yard space because there is a house beside you and behind and in front) I would rather have a house out near the mountains.
It is not true! Modern suburbs have been long before 1951, however, not many people are interested due to the high cost of houses and cars. What Levitt has done is to make construction costs cheaper and suburbs more accessible. Interstates, low gas and vehicle prices completed the job. It wasn't Levitt who invented modern suburbs.
Exactly so the Modern suburb did not really exist before 1951
but Levitt made the suburbs AVAILABLE and set the fashion for them
Then who did,Bruno?
please put all of america in color online please
levittown? I thought for sure it was going to be deltona.:)
Why can’t we have the 1950’s economy?
Because people dgaf about us. They just want as much money for themselves as possible.
When one realizes that General Motors was the first publicly held company *_in the world_* to make a profit of US$1 BILLION in a single year, 1956, and compares that to the (of course adjusted for inflation) profits of businesses today, it says a lot about where the money is going.
In the mid 50s play and movie, _The Solid Gold Cadillac_ the astounding figure of US$100,000 (one hundred thousand dollars) as a corporate president's salary is mentioned. Compare that to the present CEO testifying before Congress with an annual salary of US$31 million, we know where the money is going.
Edit: Emphasis with italics and bold.
Because the economy of the 1950s was the exception, not the rule. Economic rebound from the Great Depression due to a postwar economic boom combined with generous rewards for G.I.s is not the kind of thing that happens often.
We have to go back!
Levitt was a well known racist and refused to sell his homes to blacks, and even the reselling to blacks. How could Smithsonian gloss over that fact?
European American Vanguard .... So rather than give an answer or something you choose to spread generalizations?
Ani Merci I'd bet probably >80% of those suburban families also thought being homosexual was something to be punished for. It's just one of those things that were culturally acceptable back then, and changed now. Are you going to go under everyone's Wikipedia page from that time and add that they were at least a little against gays?
No, because it's just something that so many people believed, it was something that was really a name people put on others.
who told Africa is filthy have you visited any african country you fucking moron.
European American Vanguard really? No wonder they hate you so much. Have you visited South Africa? They made some great movies and also have nuclear programs before they destroy it by the white guy (there are still a lot of good white guys. I know. Don't worry)
This was the case for a lot of areas in the 40s-50s, so they may have felt it would've been redundant to mention it. It wouldn't shock me if the person that invented anything else in an older time had outdated views.
This was when America was great. We can make American great again.
America never stopped being great. 🇺🇸🍷🗿
Seems like a better time, the only thing missing is internet:/
It’s easy, eighty years later, to point out the problems with developing suburbs. Prior to the war my father slept with his three brothers in the same bed. There were 11 living on a single floor of an urban triple-decker. He spent the war rolling around the Pacific in destroyer. He returned to the same dump after the war but wanting something better. The suburbs offered him and his new bride something better, a further that was promised after the war.
These homes were built exclusively for white American's.
Newsday
By Rachelle Blidner
Published: Nov. 17, 2019
Vickie Perlongo remembers the first time her daughter saw a black person.
Perlongo, who is white and lives in Levittown, took her then-preschool-age daughter shopping in the mid-1980s to a Radio Shack where a black man was working.
“Why is his skin a different color?” the daughter asked.
“She’d never seen a black person before because she grew up here, and I was surprised,” said Perlongo, 66, a retired nurse who has lived in Levittown for more than 40 years. “I said, ‘Never say that out loud.'”
The incident speaks to how few minorities lived in Levittown, a suburb famous for being both the first of its kind and for policies that kept minorities out.
and yet some believe that happiness is only found when connected with nature - we have proved that wrong. Happiness comes from the accumulation of stuff.
David Boson redemption is happiness.
Stuff 😂 come on now you take nothing with you when you die, it's the accumulation of what's in your very heart and soul! Keep your stuff.
There is a song made by petshop on surbia
Suburbanization is by far the worst thing that has ever happened to American and Canadian cities
Nope. It’s actually a great thing. Humans need space and have their own land.
Segregation, inequality, obesity, smog, destruction of wilderness, childhood and old age isolation, car dependency, disinvestment in downtown cores, financial insolvency etc etc
@@julianpowers594 None of these things are inherent to suburbs. That’s propaganda.
@@julianpowers594 then u be the change, dont just sit there and complain... U try be an example by living in the streets with no car, no job, no family... There will be no difference between u and a street dogs...
The homes they built for families were really modest back then. Now days most young people want vaulted ceilings and mini mansions. One reason why housing is so unaffordable.
It’s a problem we have with a lot of things here in America. Out in Europe, people are fine with smaller cars with manual transmissions and less features. But here in America, we all want big SUVs with automatic transmissions and every tech feature…even if you’re single. Thus, there’s no market for affordable basic cars anymore in the US
@@realAlexChoi Cars in Europe are ridiculously small 😂
Born of American dream .
This was a good idea until single family exclusive zoning became the norm. Balloon Framing construction is inefficient and doesn't hold up well compared to older construction methods. This should have been abandoned in 1967 after the last of the boomers. America's infrastructure is now unsustainable with no room for cars or available energy from the grid.
Look at how many people are in their front yards. If I could get rid of my front yard I would. It seems like wasted space nowadays.
fuck off commie
"Vaush bad" - Metal Dad
The idea is socialization.
that does not look safe lol
how do they film this
It's called a camera we didn't invent it in the 21st century
The american dream never were reached by all americans, it was very mostly reached by white americans.
Then marry a white person if you have to.
It's a shed. A $10,000 shed. 🤣😂
still bigger and ultimately cheaper than an 800 sq. foot NYC apartment - which was the alternative for most.
That's intact for 70 years, and I know of no expensive new building that isn't ALREADY having issues (concrete falling apart) in
at least no schmucks on the other side of the wall like an apartment.
William leavitt was one the prominent racial segregationists in the modern era. The man is truly a Jewish icon
Who prevented black Americans from buying the home? Was it illegal?
Oh yeah that will last a long time...
Which unfortunately it did, for most of us.
BONJOUR MA CLASSE
The title says "This Man Is...", but the photo of the video has a woman on it.
Funny.
First mega 'Planned' Developments...
Suburbia already existed in Europe britain and belgium.
Is that a possible serial killer at 00:12?
rockmanman really racist for no reason
Maybe
Hah, levitttown, nice segregated community to escape the evils of failing central cities.Ive spent a good part of my life in an urban area and enjoy the diversity and chaos over my suburban upbringing. Not for everyone but the suburbs were so freaking boring! (FWIW) my old suburban neighborhood has held up well!
There is absolutely nothing wrong in these housing estates...Had I been a young American then, this would sound like paradise. Don't knock what you are jealous of...
I personally have 4,500 sf lot and I want MORE space from neighbors, not LESS.
Now the American dream has become an American nightmare, cheap housing, Houston about 15 years ago was affordable now, its fucking crazy, by Texas standards, still cheap by U.S. standard
Texas housing is freaking cheap as heck
The Housing Prices in Texas is great, but the Politics over their, too much Drama.
@@dekulevi936 price is great?!?!you must not be a native born and raised Texan it has become unaffordable here
You have to live further on the outskirts and don't get a new car. Keep the one you have.
So basically some family built car centric segregated sprawling suburbs. great
Sure did! Love it here in suburbia.
When people could walk the streets without some leroy mugging them.
I hope you wind up in prison for a racist crime and a black dude who’s 600 pounds of muscle mass named Tiny makes you his woman!
😂
Couldn't they've just built more urban apartment buildings? Instead of converting their cities into suburban dystopias
Apartment dystopias where people have no backyard and no space?
@@urbanistgod I think new suburban housing developments have accomplished that. Have you seen Calabasas?
@@urbanistgod Netherlands
@@ninoy4914 Lol the Netherlands sucks. You think it’s some kind of paradise because it’s full of bicycles lanes? Having your detached property and your own land is the only way to achieve utopia.
It causes violence. Look at what happens in ghettos. Even dumb animals get violent when overcrowded.
Ahhhh redlining
Great job creating this dream of inequality and letting it spiral out of control like a tight gambling machine at the casino , thank you for keeping it gangsta ! We owe you so much ! for steering the boat off the rapids !
The American Dream is debt.
Legend, men of today are pathetic compared to the titans of the past.
Mass Conformity. No thanks!
I guess you could call him the Jesus of suburbia
If Jesus was racist. Yes
No he’s the antichrist.
I'm an urbanist and in my perspective he is more like Satan but I sadly live in a suburb
*cough “whites only suburb” *cough
We need more of those.
Yeah so there's plenty of b
Black only Or Hispanic only neighborhoods. Where I live here in the Metro Detroit area East Dearborn is almost entirely Arabic there's plenty of places all around the United States like Chinatown for instance where mainly only Chinese people live. What's the matter white people aren't allowed to have that too?
Theres gotta be a way to go back to this...
Ahhh the fifty's, such a amazing time for America...guess it simply slipped their minds to include minorities 😏.
Oh no their was Mr levitt and his family! Did you see his last name? His people were allowed but not others...
I liké
trop frait le mec a 1:36
Baby Boomers = worst generation
Diego Rangel It's always such a downer when you come to a historical channel to see informative footage, and then some edgy TH-cam kid comes along and just HAS to make a stupid comment.
I think that would go to millennials
The Baby Boomers did two important things, new for the human race, but based on the confidence the successes and guts of the Great Generation gave us:
1.) Civil Rights. Hey, we can stop just thinking about it in church, and actually do it in real life!
2.) The anti-War Movement. Hey, this war is a mistake. Nobody wins. Let's stop it! Brand new idea, never or rarely tried. It works. We're going to work out the details for the next hundred years.
Both of these built on the best of what went before. both took guts and work. Both are huge wins.
David Lloyd-Jones - The Boomers are NOT anti-war! Boomer Neocons got the US into the Iraq mess.
Millennials: Hold our Beers
The beginning of the subdivision slums
Conveniently forgetting to mention the racist history of Levittown, I see
Ratio
OHOH POLITIC GOUVERNEMENT DONT PAYED FOR IT OHOHOH CE TE BATION QUI SOTIR AMBA LANYETTE MADAME LAZILHOMM?
Salam les rouya
USA is finished. Leave if you can. Ioe Biden's America
PAUL CEDIEU DANIEL NO-WHITE IN that subert
Gives me destroy all humans vibes
this no longer exists...why do you think AMERICA is the way it has become...
Love on the outskirts of a city or further out from downtown. It's more affordable and way less crowded.
Ok boomer
Good life? I disagree. Would rather live in a place where most of the destinations I want to go to are at a walkable distance.
Genius men created wonderful places.
That stopped black people from moving there... yeah "genius" smfh
@@ToddRogers00 Look up the history of why that was. Still a genius.