Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America Levittown’s original inspiration is the planned community created in secret at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to house the technicians and scientists of the “Manhattan Project” busily engaged in developing the first atomic weapon. For ease of orientation, the identical housing units that make up Oak Ridge are arranged along a series of precise grids and identified by numbers and colors. Levitt developed the basic models and techniques for preparing low-cost suburban homesteads out of prefabricated units while fulfilling military housing contracts during the closing years of World War II when storage facilities, dormitories, and administrative buildings had to be built quickly, cheaply, and in vast numbers. The impact that the nuclear bomb had on Gen X is further reaching than we thought. ift.tt/1fTHBy9
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:21:40 +0000
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