“[Bill Levitt] did to housing construction what Henry Ford had done for automobile manufacture. In 1946 the Levitts began building what was at that time the largest private-housing development in North America on 4,000 acres of potato farms...Variety, as with early Fords, was severely limited.” (64-65)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)