Ebook: The Levittowners

Gans' 450 page monograph, The Levittowners: Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community, sought to answer four questions - 1) what is the origin of a new community, 2) what is the quality of suburban life, 3) what is the effect of suburbia on behavior, and 4) what is the quality of politics and decision-making.

Gans thoroughly devotes himself to answering these questions, with seven chapters devoted to the first, four to the second and third, and four to the fourth. The reader gains a very clear understanding of life in Levittown through the professional observation made by Gans as well as the surveys that he commissioned during and after his time there.