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“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.”

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

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