Among the chief protagonists of William H. Whyte’s 1956 Organization Man is the village of Park Forest. Planned in 1946 and built in stages over the next decade, Whyte framed the new “package suburb” thirty miles south of Chicago as the natural habitat for a new “social ethic” that was transforming the country. Increasing numbers of young, white, mobile, and seemingly middle-class families were creating new patterns of interpersonal adjustment, domestic privacy, civic participation, leisure,...