To better understand the roots of today’s debate, we can look to the history of Levittown, Long Island, America’s first suburb. Levittown in Nassau County is a rather quaint hamlet that was ...

In fact, the suburbs expanded by 47% during the 1950s. Levittown in Long Island, New York, was one of the first to introduce the idea of a pre-planned, mass-produced uniform suburban community.

The idyllic Long Island suburb of Levittown developed by William J. Levitt in the late 1940s made history. His experiment gave war-weary veterans the chance to own a home in the first mass ...

Levittown, the nation's first suburb, was built for returning soldiers after World War II, but only for white soldiers. The roots of racism are buried in the deeds. "The tenant agrees not to ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories about the changing American suburbs. By John D. Sutter, CNN . Levittown, New York (CNN) – As Polly Dwyer drove from Queens, ...

Unlike the first Levittown, built on Long Island ... world they really knew — they have no basis of comparison. Levittown is a suburb, America is a suburban country — this is the lifestyle ...

So it went in Levittown circa 1971 and 1972 ... And while 10-year-old Delaney didn’t make it past the first tryout (“I was devastated”), he did make it the following year.

He has sketches, blueprints and keys engraved “Levittown” — the keys handed to those first-generation newlyweds ... a home in the fresh, green suburbs, low taxes, little crime and lots ...