Name: Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
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Author: Hurley, Amanda Kolson
ISBN: 9781948742368

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Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City

Type

Physical Book

Author

Amanda Kolson Hurley

Publisher

Belt Publishing

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.3 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781948742368

Synopsis "Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City "

"Radical Suburbs is a revelation. Amanda Kolson Hurley will open your eyes to the wide diversity and rich history of our ongoing suburban experiment."--Richard FloridaAmerica'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 broad lawns and white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising. Rather than bland, sprawling cookie-cutter developments, some American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing. In Radical Suburbs, Amanda Kolson Hurley, an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, takes us on a tour of some of these radical communities, including: - 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. Here you will find blueprints for affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. It's a timely reminder, as NPR put it, that "any place, even a suburb, can be radical if you approach it the right way."An insightful study that will make you rethink your assumptions about suburbia and possibly remake its future.

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