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This famous January 5, 1953 Life magazine
photo was staged but gives some sense of what
moving day might have looked like amid all
the newly built houses that lined the streets in
Lakewood, California.
The New Town
Movement
Three new towns that helped build
Los Angeles, and what they teach us
about building cities
RICHARD PEISER
New towNs and master-planned communities
played a major role in the growth of the
Los Angeles metropolitan area throughout
the 20th century. With the invention of massproduced
housing in the 1940s-a factory in
the field, as exemplified by Levittown in New
York-Los Angeles developed rapidly after
large ranches such as Palos Verdes and Bixby
Ranch were master-planned for housing and
neighborhood amenities.
Soldiers returning from World War II got
loan guarantees via the GI Bill that enabled
them to purchase homes with low down
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payments, which created enormous demand
for housing. Production homebuilders including
Marlow-Burns (Toluca Lake, 1941), Kaiser
Community Homes (Panorama City, 1948), and
Weingart, Taper, and Boyar (Lakewood, 1950)
laid the groundwork for Los Angeles' dramatic
growth throughout the rest of the 20th century
and into the 21st century.
As the metropolitan area expanded into
Orange, Riverside, San Bernadino, and Ventura
counties, many of the ranches were developed
by major corporations such as Philip Morris,
Mobil Land, and Kaiser Aluminum, as well as
SHUTTERS T OCK/TIME LIFE

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