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Car Culture & Suburban Sprawl: Why Americans Can’t Have Nice Things

The Financial Confessions

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The Effects of the Federal Highway Act on Urban Home Construction

Arthur Levitt brought kind of mass production techniques to suburban home construction. His company would build as many as 150 homes a week in these highly, highly segregated planned communities. This was also during a time like culturally we were defining the nuclear family and really isolating people. And this is this happened within people alive today's lifetimes.

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