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207 Morris Avenue was built by John George McIntosh in 1892, and is known as the John G. McIntosh House. McIntosh purchased the plot of land in 1887 for $10 and built his home on the East Side. The house is pictured on the left of the…

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The Willingboro Plaza in Levittown, New Jersey was a 614,000-square-foot regional shopping center that was built as a centerpiece of the city. After 7 years of construction, Willingboro Plaza was completed in 1967 with featured stores like Acme,…

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The Levittown Shop-a-Rama, originally called the Levittown Shopping Center, was a pedestrian shopping mall, planned and developed by William Levitt, the then-president of Levitt and Sons, a real estate development agency responsible for building the…

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The Willingboro Plaza in Levittown, New Jersey was a 614,000-square-foot regional shopping center that was built as a centerpiece of the city. After 7 years of construction, Willingboro Plaza was completed in 1967 with featured stores like Sears and…

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Willingboro Secondary School and the Levitt High School in 1970. As of 2016, Willingboro has the Willingboro High School, the Levitt Middle School, one alternative education program school to include gifted and talented students, and five elementary…

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Willingboro Secondary School and Levitt High School in 1970. As of 2016, Willingboro has the Willingboro High School, the Levitt Middle School, one alternative education program school to include gifted and talented students, and five elementary…

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In 1954, William Levitt of Levitt & Sons, a leading residential firm, began purchasing property in Willingboro with the objective of building a residential community with few jobs and little commercial property so that the town's survival largely…

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In 1954, William Levitt of Levitt & Sons, a leading residential firm, began purchasing property in Willingboro with the objective of building a residential community with few jobs and little commercial property so that the town's survival largely…

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In 1954, William Levitt of Levitt & Sons, a leading residential firm, began purchasing property in Willingboro with the objective of building a residential community with few jobs and little commercial property so that the town's survival largely…

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While the Million Programme, a nation wide effort in the 1960s to create one million new homes in Sweden, has been criticized as creating concrete high-rises that are a blemish on the city’s skyline, many of the home were also small three floored…

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Million Programme style housing in Skärholmen, a suburban district of south-west Stockholm, was built in Sweden during the 1960s as part of a nation wide effort to create one million new homes in a decade. While the project did achieve the goal of…

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This is an aerial photograph of Saint Petersburg’s Meadowlawn Neighborhood. The land this neighborhood is built on was once a bog with woods and weeds as well as a place where cattle would come to graze from two local dairy farmers. Before it was…

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Pictured is one of the many suburban neighborhoods in Charleston. Calhoun Street, a major street running from east to west, was viewed as the major boundary separating the north suburbs from the southern urban area.

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This photograph, taken in the English town of Tickhill, show’s late 20th century suburban developments in this wealthy twelfth century town. This small town has maintained it’s relatively small population, at the 2001 census it was home to 5,301…

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  The Rouse Company, a development firm headed by James Rouse, is responsible for the creation of Columbia, Maryland. The community consists of ten self-contained villages which were established in the late 1960s.  (date of photograph has been…

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  The University of Colorado at Boulder has the Flatiron Mountains as a backdrop. This mountain range, consisting of five flatiron rock formations, is iconic for the city of Boulder and the university. Both the suburban campus and the state of…

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Warwick Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Warwick, Rhode Island, on the north side of Interstate 295 near the junction of Interstate 95. Composed of more than 1,000,000-square-foot (100,000 m2) of retail space, it features more than 70 stores and…
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