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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

Americas suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Todays 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. Its 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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Advance praise for Radical Suburbs
Radical Suburbs is a revelation. Amanda Kolson Hurley will open your eyes to the wide diversity and rich history of our ongoing suburban experiment. This book gives us all a new way to understand our varied suburbias and how to engage a serious conversation about making them for twenty-first century life. Essential reading for every urbanist.
Richard Florida,
author of The Rise of the Creative Class
Radical Suburbs overturns stereotypes about the suburbs to show that, from the beginning, those little boxes harbored revolutionary ideas about racial and economic inclusion, communal space, and shared domestic labor. Amanda Kolson Hurleys illuminating case studies show not just where weve been but where we need to go.
Alexandra Lange,
author of The Design of Childhood
RADICAL SUBURBS
To observe the banlieue is to observe an amphibian. End of trees, beginning of roofs, end of grass, beginning of paving stones, end of ploughed fields, beginning of shops, the end of the beaten track, the beginning of the passions, the end of the murmur of things divine, the beginning of the noise of humankindall of this holds an extraordinary interest.
Victor Hugo, Les Misrables
RADICAL SUBURBS
Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
Amanda Kolson Hurley
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Belt Publishing
Copyright 2019 by Amanda Kolson Hurley
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Printed in the United States of America
First edition 2019
ISBN: 978-1-948742-36-8
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Belt Publishing
3143 W 33rd Street #6
Cleveland Ohio 44109
www.beltpublishing.com
Book design by Meredith Pangrace
Cover by David Wilson
CONTENTS:
Ezra StollerEsto INTRODUCTION T he internet has a corner for every - photo 4
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INTRODUCTION
T he internet has a corner for every subgroup, and for young people who are interested in urban planning, architecture, and transportation, thats a Facebook group called New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens. NUMTOTs, as its known, has 130,000 members and rising (even as Facebook has become mired in successive scandals). People in the group share photos of favorite buildings or mass-transit systems, captioning them with slangy terms of endearment like l o n g b o i (for an extra-long train) or BIGBOI (for a jumbo jet). Early in 2018, an architecture student in Montral posed a question to the group:
Alright gang, I have a question for you thats part of a school assignment. What bothers you the most about suburban life in general?
More than 200 responses quickly followed. They included:
The sameness of it all. The same houses in every city, the same cars in every driveway, the [same] restaurants in every plaza, the same gifts at every Christmas, the same hotels for when [youre] visiting relatives its impossible to tell where you are in the country when you are in the suburbs.
Insular communities. Its easy to go your whole life without encountering anyone who looks or acts differently than you do.
The conflation of isolation with wealth/success. lawns. inefficient public transit. nothing interesting within walking distance unless you find minute variations in peoples prefab houses interesting. no one to people watch.
People are so much more bitter and territorial about their space (especially their fucking lawns).
Normalized social anxiety among people my age who live there.
Super alienating. Theres no flexibility in lifestyles or housing or transit options. Its bland and placeless.
The rest of the comments mostly hewed to the same themes: architectural monotony. Geographic and social isolation, reinforcing each other in a depressing feedback loop. A culture obsessed with wealth, privacy, and status-seeking.
NUMTOTs is not representative of younger Americans overall, but still, the poll serves as a kind of Rorschach test for how people view the suburbs. And what it suggests is that the popular conception of suburbia hasnt changed much at all in fifty-odd years. Back in the early 1960s, Malvina Reynolds wrote a song called Little Boxes, inspired by a drive past rows of lookalike pastel-hued houses in a new suburban housing tract. (Her friend Pete Seeger had a hit with the song in 1963.) Reynolds saw the cookie-cutter houses as both symbols and shapers of the conformist mindset of the people who lived in themdoctors and lawyers who aspired to nothing more than playing golf and raising children who would one day inhabit ticky-tacky boxes of their own.
But Reynolds was wrong about who lived in this suburb, Daly City, just south of San Francisco. It was not originally home to the martini-chuffing doctors and lawyers she imagined, but to working-class and lower-middle-class (white) strivers who were the last group to get in on the postwar housing boom. Then, only a few years after Reynolds wrote Little Boxes, Filipinos and other immigrants from Asia began arriving in Daly City. The ticky-tacky architecture that Reynolds scorned proved amenable to them remodeling and expanding homes for extended families, and Daly City became the Pinoy capital of the U.S., with the highest concentration of immigrants from the Philippines in America.
For some reason, misinformed clichs like this one still define suburbia in the popular imagination, and it drives me crazy. I lived in Montgomery County, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. Im a suburbanite, but my life doesnt revolve around manicured lawns, status anxiety, or a craving for homogeneity. My suburban experience includes riding the bus as people chat around me in Spanish and French Creole. Its living in a condo, with no yard or garage, and having neighbors who hail from Tibet, Brazil, and Kenya as well as Cincinnati. Its my son attending a school that reflects the diversityand stubborn inequalityof America today.
Suburbia is a dizzyingly broad category. The term refers to semi-rural areas where strip malls nibble at farmland and those where tall towers loom over the city line. It encompasses McMansions and mobile homes, airports and light-industrial estates, landfills and parkland. More than half of all Americans live in the suburbs, and according to demographer William Frey, within the countrys 100 largest metropolitan areas, more than half of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians do. Minorities now account for 35 percent of suburban residents, in line with their share of the total U.S. population. Diverse suburbs are growing faster than predominantly white suburbs. Also, increasingly, new immigrants bypass central cities and settle directly in suburbia. (In my county, for example, 33 percent of residents are foreign-born.) Suburban poverty is widespread and growing: The number of poor people in the suburbs surpassed the number in the cities during the 2000s. The 2018 midterm elections showed that suburbanites are now more likely to vote Democratic than Republican. But you wouldnt necessarily know any of this from popular culture. Pop suburbia is either a facade of upper-middle-class conformity about to crack and reveal its dark secretsthink of the movies
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