![]() ![]() Plain-spoken and clear-eyed, yet ultimately optimistic, portrait of the Geography influences the lives of its residents. Of a place and a story about "place"-showing how suburban Through short and powerful vignettes, Holy Land" evocativelyĭescribes the community, its people, and their dreams. War veterans, their spouses and their 2.3 children-into a new and With neighborhood shopping centers and throwing together people-20,000 Lakewood was an experiment: testing production-line housingĬonstruction methods and the market for such housing among the middleĬlass, combining self-contained residential grid patterns of development Houses built on small lots in a rigid, grid development pattern. Southern California farmland in the early 1950s, Lakewood at itsĬreation was the quintessential suburb: 17,500 small, suburban tract Growth of Lakewood-after Long Island's Levittown-the second ![]() Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir," reflects on the creation and Lakewood, Calif., where he serves as the city's public information APA style: Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir.Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir." Retrieved from MLA style: "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir." The Free Library. ![]()
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