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  • Radical Suburbs

  • Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
  • By: Amanda Kolson Hurley
  • Narrated by: Kristin Price
  • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Radical Suburbs

By: Amanda Kolson Hurley
Narrated by: Kristin Price
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America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date.

The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing. 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.

Inside Radical Suburbs you will find descriptions of affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia.

©2019 Amanda Kolson Hurley (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
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