![]() ![]() ![]() "Rising social inequality and demographic shifts - and above all climate change - make it imperative to rethink who and what our suburbs are for," she writes. She makes a great case that such a vision is vitally necessary. One with a flourishing sense of community, where you participate in your neighborhood association and know the people on your street. One where you can walk or take public transit to most of the places you need to go. Writing with brisk, upbeat directness, Kolson Hurley urges the reader to envision a very different kind of suburb: one that's a mix of ethnic groups and income levels, where you can buy or rent a starter home for a reasonable price. ![]() But in Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City, Kolson Hurley sets out to reveal a different side of the vast patchwork of not-quite-urban, not-quite-rural zones in which more than half of Americans live. Kolson Hurley is well-acquainted with suburbia's numerous negative stereotypes - some of them, such as racial segregation and ecological threat, all too valid. ![]() At least, that's what Amanda Kolson Hurley, a senior editor at urban news site CityLab, wants you to do. ![]()
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