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" 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 Florida 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 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,

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Author

Amanda Kolson, author Hurley

Publisher

Belt Publishing

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781948742375

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science