num_pages: 160
description: 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 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 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: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City you will find blueprints for affordable walkable and integrated communities filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia.
language: English
title: Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
publisher: Belt Publishing