1. A brief history of the American mass suburbs1.1. Using Levittown as an Example Post-war America witnessed a vast building boom. As one of the paradigms of post-World War II American suburbanization, Levittown features mass-produced, standardized, and even affordable homes that were first exploited by the company Levitt and Sons, Inc. Although these new manufacturing techniques effectively met the massive demand for housing and solved many social problems, some criticisms of homogenization have been leveled. According to the urban planner Lewis Mumford “a multitude of uniform and unidentifiable houses, line up flexibly, with uniform distances on uniform streets, in a common treeless desert, inhabited by people of the same class, of the same income, of the same bracket of age." ' (quoted in Giles 2004:29).1.2. Transformations of LevittownThe suburb was built by developers, however, residents living in Levittown also shaped suburbanization. Two comparable analytical plans of the Levittown site (Figure 1) show that new buildings or outbuildings were constructed as the family grew in the 1990s. The garden space and entrance ways have more diversity than before. A series of photographs of homes from the 1990s (figure 2) show us the ways in which people have made visual changes. They sought the lifestyle they aspired to by their own choice and used their homes in their own way. After 40 years, residents have customized the homes in many different ways. And as a result, they ultimately transformed Levittown from a rough, homogeneous survival environment to a vivid, heterogeneous cultural environment. In Levittown, residents use their actions to demonstrate a fact that they need their living space to meet their individual living needs. They need...... half of the paper ......, the use of containers to build houses has other advantages, such as simplicity of construction, time saving, mobility. At the same time, there are some shortcomings. Although many container homes appear less boxy due to their futuristic design, they are still essentially box spaces, simply assembled into more complex boxes. Current container housing design usually lacks privacy without private rear and front gardens. They are difficult to integrate with the surrounding natural environment. More importantly, what traditional housing cannot be replaced by container housing is the local cultural symbol behind it. It becomes doubtful whether people can locate container housing. In the future, if the technology of using containers is popularized, perhaps container housing itself will become a particular culture and even become a paradigm in a specific period..