LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias

Web Review

(assignment



SUBURBS

AS

UTOPIA
or
 DYSTOPIA

Levittown, NY 1947-51: first mass-produced suburb

 

Guardian history of Levittown

Kate Dailey, BBC, "Return to Levittown: a suburban dream turns 60"

Bruce Lambert, New York Times, "At 50, Levittown contends with its history of bias"

Wikipedia page on Levittown, Pennsylvania

photographs from Levittown PA

 

Rupa Huq, "Suburbia: the new Utopia?"

Wikipedia page on Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier

review of Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia

student essay on suburbs as personal utopia w/ private property considerations

 

"Exurb": Wikipedia Definition

USA Today editorial on exurbs

 

 

Russ Lanier's sites (summer 2015)

http://io9.com/10-failed-utopian-cities-that-influenced-the-future-1511695279

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23757738 Songdo South Korea

http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/does-a-techno-utopia-require-physical-books

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/broadacre-city-frank-lloyd-wrights-unbuilt-suburban-ut-1509433082

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/one-utopian-community/

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/


1950s family at Levittown home