Hurley, Amanda Kolson, author.

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

First edition.

Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, [2019]
©2019

174 pages : illustrations ; 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.

9781948742368 (paperback)
1948742365 (paperback)

Suburbs United States History.
Suburban life United States History.
Metropolitan areas United States History.
Sociology, Urban.
Vie de la banlieue États-Unis Histoire.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
HISTORY / Social History.
Metropolitan areas.
Suburban life.
Suburbs.
United States.

History.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 305197
Cote: BIB 250999
Statut: Disponible