Hi, it's Rund, and this week we wanted to bring you something a little different.

It's part of a series called La Brega, and it's a co-production of our friends at WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios.

La Brega is a hard word to translate.

In Spanish, it means something like the struggle or the hustle.

And the seven episodes look at how La Brega has defined so many aspects of life in Puerto Rico,

which of course is a distinctly American story.

The series comes from a team of journalists, producers, musicians, and artists from the island,

or the Puerto Rican diaspora, and all the episodes are available in both English and Spanish.

We encourage you to listen to the whole series, but today we wanted to share an episode about that most American of inventions, the suburb.

And not just any suburb, Levitown, seven planned housing developments, meant for World War II veterans.

Levitown epitomized a certain kind of middle-class life after World War II,

but it turns out there was also a Levitown in Puerto Rico,

and the Puerto Rican Levitown continues to teach us interesting lessons about the promise of the American dream.

After the break, reporter Alana Casanova Burgess takes us to her Levitown.

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