![]() ![]() 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. My suburban experience is riding the bus as people chat around me in Spanish and French Creole. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. Booktopia has Radical Suburbs, Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City Audio CD by Amanda Kolson Hurley. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. ![]()
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