Question

What is the most accurate statement about the social impact of living in a Levittown-inspired community?

Answer 1

The Levittown experience, is that of a planned and organized housing alternative designed after WWII by Abraham Levitt´s firm in which people would live in residential areas in houses where they could have a standar ideal of family and upper-middle class lifestyle. There are many opinions against and for suburban life.

Among other effects, the Levittown experience of mass produced houses inevitably standarized not only the houses and suburbs general design, but also, it standarized lfestyles, creating a feeling of conformity among their residents, in which wives, for example, had to follow the expected role of tending their children and become into ideal homemakers whereas other impacts such as elder relatives having to move due to their ages or teenagers´ behaviors or the strain put on married couples do not seem to be of a great impact.

This is the reason why the closest impact of suburbia in social life is the first one,