9. 2001 English House Condition Survey (London, July 2003).
10. National Housing Survey, 2001.
11. Robert Bruegmann, Sprawl: A Compact History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 201.
Chapter 16: Generic Traditional
1. Andrés Duany et al., Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (New York: Northpoint Press, 2000), 208.
2. Kurt Andersen, “Is Seaside Too Good to Be True?” in Seaside: Making a Town in America, David Mohney and Keller Easterling, eds. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991), 46.
3. Alan Gowans, The Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986), 141.
4. David Brooks, On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 50–51.
5. Beth Dunlop, Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996), 28.
6. Witold Rybczynski, “Tomorrowland,” New Yorker (July 22, 1996): 36–39.
7. Robert A. M. Stern, “Jumping-Off Points,” ANY 1 (July–August 1993): 45.
8. Celebration Pattern Book (Celebration, Fla.: Walt Disney Company, March 1995), A3.
Chapter 17: The Dream
1. Quoted in Allen Sinclair Will, “America, Nation of Dreamers,” New York Times (October 4, 1931): 61.
2. Marc A. Weiss, The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), 1.
3. Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 234–36.
4. Michel T. Kaufman, “Tough Times for Mr. Levittown,” New York Times Magazine (September 24, 1989): 44.
5. Barbara M. Kelly, Expanding the Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 26.
6. Ibid., 189n15.
7. Michele Ingrassia, “The House That Levitt Built,” Newsday.com (2005).
8. Frank Lloyd Wright, The Natural House (New York: Horizon Press,1954), 68.
9. John Sergeant, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Houses: The Case for Organic Architecture (New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1975), 16.
10. William Allin Storrer, The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1993), 252.
11. Ron Rosenbaum, “The House That Levitt Built,” Esquire (December1983): 385.
12. Kelly, Expanding the Dream, 35.
13. Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996), 337.
14. Herbert J. Gans, The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community (New York: Pantheon Books, 1967), xvi.
15. Ibid., 293.
16. Ibid.,413.
17. Ibid., 432.
18. “New Towns,” Architectural Forum (November 1951): 138.
19. “Levitts Plan Many ‘Extras’ in Homes for Defense Workers in Bucks County,” New York Times (November 4, 1951): 1.
20. Ingrassia, “House That Levitt Built.”
21. “New Levitt Houses Break All Records,” House + Home (February 1952): 98.
Chapter 18: Builders
1. Jaquelin T. Robertson, “The House as the City,” in New Classicism, Andreas Papadakis and Harriet Watson, eds. (London: Academy Editions,1990), 234.
2. “1992 Census of Construction Industries” (U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, June 1995).
3. Builder (May 2005).
4. The top ten nationals in 2005 in terms of annual housing starts were D. R. Horton, Pulte Homes, Lennar Corporation, Centex Corporation, KB Home, Beazer Homes USA, Hovnanian Enterprises, Ryland Group, MDC Holdings, and NVR (Builder, May 2006).
5. This example is based on Ryan Homes’s Avalon model in 2005. See ryanhomes.com.
6. “J. D. Power and Associates Reports: Pulte Homes Receives Platinum Award for Excellence on Home Building and Ranks Highest in Customer Satisfaction in Fourteen U.S. Markets,” J. D. Power and Associates Press Release, September 15, 2004.
7. “Region’s Home Builders Fare Poorly in Survey,” Philadelphia Inquirer (September 16, 2004).
Chapter 19: A Compromise
1. Timothy J. Cassidy, “Critical Regionalism — A Reflective Perspective from the Brandywine Valley” (Ph.D. diss., Texas A&M University, May 2000),217.
Chapter 20: Trade-offs
1. See Witold Rybczynski, “Dream Town, USA,” posted on Slate.com, February 9, 2005.
Chapter 21: Mike and Mike
1. Edward P. Eichler and Marshall Kaplan, The Community Builders (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 146.
2. Alan Gowans, The Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture, 1890–1930 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986), 59–63.
3. Alfred Bank and Harold Sandbank, A History of Prefabrication (New York: Arno Press, 1972), 57.
Chapter 22: Ranchers, Picture Windows, and Morning Rooms
1. Alfred Bank and Harold Sandbank, A History of Prefabrication (New York: Arno Press, 1972), 29–31.
2. Ibid., 44–52.
3. Gilbert Herbert, The Packaged House: Dream and Reality (Haifa: Technion, Documentation Unit of Architecture, 1981).
4. Housing Facts, Figures, and Trends 2004 (Washington, D.C.: National Association of Home Builders, January 2005).
5. Charles Moore, Gerald Allen, and Donlyn Lyndon, The Place of Houses (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974), 107.
6. Housing Facts.
7. Ibid.,11.
8. Ibid.,10.
9. Ibid.
10. NVR Annual Report 2004, 7.
Chapter 24: The Market Rules
1. The Linneman Letter (Fall 2005), 26.
2. Most prominently, Robert J. Schiller, “The Bubble’s New Home,” Barron’s (June 20, 2005); and Paul Krugman, “The Hissing Sound,” New York Times (August 8, 2005): A15. The counterargument was presented by Chris Mayer and Todd Sinai, “Bubble Trouble? Not Likely,” Wall Street Journal (September 19, 2005): A16.
3. Karl E. Case and Robert J. Schiller, “Is There a Housing Bubble?” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Brookings Institution 2003): 2, 299.
4. Margaret Hwang Smith, Gary Smith, and Chris Thompson, “When Is a Housing Bubble Not a Housing Bubble?” (Unpublished paper, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., 2005), 3.
5. See Charles Himmelberg, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai, “Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 19, no. 4 (Fall 2005).
6. National Association of Home Builders (November 17, 2005).
7. New York Times (October 4, 2005): A1.
8. Atlanta Journal-Constitution (November 2005): 1C.
Chapter 25: Bumps in the Road
1. Washington Post (February 28, 2006): D03.
2. James O’Sullivan, quoted in The New York Times (March 1, 2006): C3.
3. Financial Times (March 26, 2006): 1.
Chapter 29: Moving Day
1. Allan Greenberg, George Washington Architect (London: Andreas Papadakis Publisher, 1999), 115.
About the Author
Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Slate. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Home and the award-winning A Clearing in the Distance. The recipient of the National Building Museum’s 2007 Vincent Scully Prize, he lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.
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