PDF/ePub Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City Writen - Amanda Kolson Hurley
Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
America's suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today's suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as may Democratic as Republican Voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The clich? of white picket fences is well past its expiration date.The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile grounds for utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing. 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.Inside 'Radical Suburbs' you will find descriptions of affordable,
Product details: Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
Author : Amanda Kolson Hurley
Pages : pages
Publisher : Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B07VNHLPCY
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