O for a house in the country

July 21, 2006 | Uncategorized

Levittown_as_built

Levittown, Pennsylvania

 

“My favorite illustration of the long history of suburbia is an excerpt from a letter reported in Ivar Lissner’s The Living Past, p. 44:

 

“Our property seems to me the most beautiful in the world.  It is so close … that we enjoy all the advantages of [the city] and yet when we come home we are away from all the noise and dust.”

 

Cuneiform_tablet

Does anybody have correction fluid for a tablet?

 

“The city referred to is Babylon, and the letter, in cuneiform on a clay tablet, was composed in 539 BC.”

Herbert F. Gans, The Levittowners, preface to the 1982 edition, page vi

 

 

Brueghel_babylon_tower

Modern high-rise living at its finest, all mod cons

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