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Radical suburbs : experimental living on the fringes of the American city / Amanda Kolson Hurley.

by Hurley, Amanda Kolson, author.

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Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, 2019.

Suburbs -- United States -- History.

Suburban life -- United States -- History.

Metropolitan areas -- United States -- History.

Sociology, Urban.

9781948742368 (paperback) :

1948742365 (paperback) :

174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm

"American suburbs are not the homogeneous 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 cliché 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 a co-housing commune near Pittsburgh, a tiny-house anarchist community in New Jersey, a government-planned garden city in the DC suburbs, and a racially integrated subdivision outside Philadelphia. Radical suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia."--Back cover.

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