Levittown

another term that i found in Learning from Las Vegas. Levittown was the first modern American suburb and is widely considered as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the US. it is also used as an offensive term to describe suburban areas that lack the culture and vitality of an urban area. Levittown gets its name from its builder, the firm of Levitt & Sons, Inc. founded by William Levitt, which built a district in New York as a planned community between 1947 and 1951. the firm built also other similar communities in Pennsylvania, new Jersey and Puerto Rico. they built them with an eye towards speed, efficiency, and cost-effective construction which led to a production rate of 30 houses a day. the firm had learned the techniques of rapid construction using standardized parts, tightly controlled suppliers of goods and services, and a workforce with highly specialized skills. they took the mass-production assembly line and converted it so that workers moved from site to site doing their specific targeted tasks.
source tessellar.