Levitt-villes in France
MARCH 2024
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Edward Berenson - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
TOPICS : Cities - Americanization through the Arts
PLACES : North Atlantic - Europe - North America
PERIODS : The Atlantic Space Within Globalization - The Consolidation of Mass Cultures
DOI : 10.35008/tracs-0296
ABSTRACT
In 1965, William Levitt, America’s largest home builder and creator of the famous Levittowns, constructed a “new village” in the suburbs of Paris. He built 500 houses in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, whose mayor wanted to create an alternative to the grands ensembles he hated. It was a huge success and the first of several Levitt-villes en France.
- ISSN 2739-6614