Description America\'s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for.
She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland..
Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Architect magazine, The American Scholar, and many other publications.
About the Author Amanda Kolson Hurley is a writer who specializes in architecture and urban planning and a senior editor at City Lab.
Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia.
Inside Radical Suburbs you will find blueprints for affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options.
We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these, such as the co-housing commune of Old Economy, Pennsylvania; a tiny-house anarchist community in Piscataway, New Jersey; a government-planned garden City in Greenbelt, Maryland; a racially integrated subdivision (before the Fair Housing Act) in Trevose, Pennsylvania; Experimental Modernist enclaves in Lexington, Massachusetts; and the mixed-use, architecturally daring Reston, Virginia.
The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially-conscious design, and integrated housing.
The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date.
Today\'s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty.
Description America\'s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for
