1. Brief history of American mass suburbia1.1. Using Levittown as an Example The postwar period in America witnessed a vast construction boom. As a paradigm of American suburbia after World War II, Levittown featured mass-produced, standardized, and also affordable homes, operated initially by the company Levitt and Sons, Inc. Although these new production techniques effectively responded to the massive demand for housing and solve many social problems, some criticism regarding homogenization has been made. Town planner Lewis Mumford believed that "a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, flexibly aligned, at uniform distances on uniform roads, in a treeless communal wilderness, inhabited by people of the same class, of the same income, of the same age group. » (quoted in Giles 2004: 29).1.2. Levittown TransformationsThe suburb was built by real estate developers, but Levittown residents also shaped the suburb. Two comparable analytical site plans of Levittown (Figure 1) show us that new adjoining buildings or rooms were constructed alongside the family's growth in the 1990s. Garden spaces and entry routes are more diverse than 'previously. A series of photographs of housing from the 1990s (Figure 2) shows us how people were making visual changes. They have sought out the lifestyle they aspire to in their own choice and used their home in their own way. After 40 years, residents have personalized their homes in different ways. As a result, they eventually changed Levittown from a homogeneous and rough surviving environment to a heterogeneous and lively cultural environment. In Levittown, residents use their actions to prove that they need their living space to meet their individual living needs. They need the... middle of paper ......tion, using containers to build houses has other advantages, such as simplicity of construction, time saving, mobility. At the same time, there are certain shortcomings. Although many container homes appear to be less box-like due to their futuristic design, they are still essentially box-shaped spaces, simply assembled into more complex boxes. Current container housing design generally lacks privacy without a private garden in the back and front. They are difficult to integrate into the surrounding natural environment. More importantly, what traditional housing cannot replace with container housing is the local cultural symbol behind it. It becomes doubtful whether people can locate container accommodation. In the future, if the technology of using containers is popularized, perhaps container hosting itself will become a special culture, and even a paradigm in a specific period..