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While PMH custom designs, builds, and installs Pavilions Tulsa and a Tulsa pavilion in the backyards of homes to accentuate and make their outdoor living spaces more decorative and useful, you may also think of pavilions when you think of parks and other outdoor venues. Another place where they are commonly found—no pun intended—are in the common areas in neighborhoods. Giving residents who live there a place to gather and relax or celebrate without having to travel far from their own home. Tract housing, also known in the United States and Canada as cookie-cutter housing, or housing developments or housing additions, or subdivisions, is a type of housing development where multiple very similar style of home are built on an area of land that is subdivided into individual small lots. Tract housing developments are found in world suburb developments that were modeled on the “Levittown” concept and sometimes encompass large areas of dozens of square miles. Tract housing development makes use of very few architectural designs, and labor costs are reduced because workers only need to learn the skills and movements of constructing one type of those designs rather than repeat the learning curve. In addition, again, no pun intended, as all homes in the development will be built at the same time, the cost of purchasing and transporting building supplies may be reduced due to the economics of scale. Components such as roof trusses, plumbing, and stair systems are often prefabricated in factories and installed right there on-site. This allows builders to offer lower prices on the homes, which in turn can make homes more affordable to a larger percentage of the population. Early tract homes were often identical, but many tracts since the late twentieth century have several designs and other variations in footprint, roof form, and materials, along with options such as garage bays, for a more diverse appearance. Giving buyers more options to live in something that looks slightly different than their next- door neighbor. While PMH custom designs, builds, and installs Pavilions Tulsa and a Tulsa pavilion in the backyards of homes to accentuate and make their outdoor living spaces more decorative and useful, you may also think of pavilions when you think of parks and other outdoor venues. Another place where they are commonly found—no pun intended—are in the common areas in neighborhoods. Giving residents who live there a place to gather and relax or celebrate without having to travel far from their own home. The idea behind tract housing is sometimes joked about in North American popular culture as the basis of suburbia; notable examples are the songs “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds, “Suburbia” by the Pet Shop Boys and “Subdivisions” by Rush. It is also often criticized by most city planners and architects, as its construction tends to overlook required elements of successful community building, instead creating a homogeneous residential neighborhood with no local employment, commerce, services, or attractions within close commuting distance. This leads to a heavy reliance on automobile travel, as residents are unable to address any of these needs locally. They must drive everywhere, unlike a downtown area where they can walk or take various forms of public transportation. While PMH custom designs, builds, and installs Pavilions Tulsa and a Tulsa pavilion in the backyards of homes to accentuate and make their outdoor living spaces more decorative and useful, you may also think of pavilions when you think of parks and other outdoor venues. Another place where they are commonly found—no pun intended—are in the common areas in neighborhoods. Giving residents who live there a place to gather and relax or celebrate without having to travel far from their own home. Tract housing evolved in the 1940s when the demand for cheap housing rocketed sky high among buyers from newlyweds to couples starting a family. Economies of scale meant that large numbers of identical homes could be built faster and more inexpensively to fulfil the growing demand. Developers would purchase a dozen or more adjacent lots and conduct the building construction as an assembly-line process, making it much more affordable for all involved. While PMH custom designs, builds, and installs Pavilions Tulsa and a Tulsa pavilion in the backyards of homes to accentuate and make their outdoor living spaces more decorative and useful, you may also think of pavilions when you think of parks and other outdoor venues. Another place where they are commonly found—no pun intended—are in the common areas in neighborhoods. Giving residents who live there a place to gather and relax or celebrate without having to travel far from their own home. Tract housing began with the post-World War II boom; suddenly, there were millions of families who now had stable employment and were ready to own their own piece of the American Dream. Unfortunately, the housing market did not necessarily get the memo, because the blue-collar income of many families simply did not match the cost of preexisting housing. Consider the fact that a whopping five million residences were needed to house people by the end of 1945, due to former GIs returning home to their hometown and their families. What the United States needed was a lot more space for middle class families and lots of it, and very fast. So, a real estate investment and development company on Long Island, in New York had a six-thousand-acre land tract on an abandoned potato field that fit the bill perfectly. They realized that small lots on big tracts could make excellent neighborhoods. While PMH custom designs, builds, and installs Pavilions Tulsa and a Tulsa pavilion in the backyards of homes to accentuate and make their outdoor living spaces more decorative and useful, you may also think of pavilions when you think of parks and other outdoor venues. Another place where they are commonly found—no pun intended—are in the common areas in neighborhoods. Giving residents who live there a place to gather and relax or celebrate without having to travel far from their own home. Two days later, one thousand homes were already rented. When 1948 rolled around, they were building thirty houses a day. And demand was still growing; by 1949, they quickly realized they could start selling homes that were a bit larger but still manufactured identically and affordable. In 1951, over seventeen thousand homes were built. This became known as the first cookie-cutter neighborhood. While PMH custom designs, builds, and installs Pavilions Tulsa and a Tulsa pavilion in the backyards of homes to accentuate and make their outdoor living spaces more decorative and useful, you may also think of pavilions when you think of parks and other outdoor venues. Another place where they are commonly found—no pun intended—are in the common areas in neighborhoods. Giving residents who live there a place to gather and relax or celebrate without having to travel far from their own home.