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|quote = The casual, spread-out ranch house [...] by 1950 accounted for nine out of ten new houses. [...] Its one extravagance was a large window facing the street - the picture window. As far as I have been able to determine, picture windows made their first appearance in Levittown, Pennsylvania.

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Many [[Modernity|modern day]] windows may have a [[window screen]] or mesh, often made of [[Aluminium|aluminum]] or [[Fiberglass|fibreglass]], to keep [[Bug (insect)|bugs]] out when the window is opened. Windows are primarily designed to facilitate a vital connection with the outdoors, offering those within the confines of the building visual access to the everchanging events occurring outside. The provision of this connection serves as an integral safeguard for the health and well-being of those inhabiting buildings, lest they experience the detrimental effects of enclosed buildings devoid of windows. Among the myriad criteria for the design of windows, several pivotal criteria have emerged in daylight standards: location, time, weather, nature, and people. Of these criteria, windows that are designed to provide views of [[nature]] are considered to be the most important by people.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kent |first1=Michael |last2=Schiavon |first2=Stefano |date=2022 |title=Predicting Window View Preferences Using the Environmental Information Criteria |url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt7rv6936v/qt7rv6936v.pdf?t=rgtbft |journal=LEUKOS |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=190–209 |doi=10.1080/15502724.2022.2077753 |s2cid=251121476 |access-date=2022-11-09}}</ref>