Hido began taking photographs of houses at night in the San Francisco suburbs but the series eventually took him to neighborhoods across the U.S. He made this photograph in Levittown, a planned community established in 1947 on Long Island that set the standard for modern suburbia. The development featured affordable single-family mass-produced homes built at a rate of thirty per day. Levittown allowed thousands of Americans to become homeowners, though the community’s homogeneity has long been criticized. This quality was not just architectural – Levittown and other suburbs initially discriminated against non-white residents.