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    Beyond Crabgrass: A Look At America's 'Radical Suburbs'

    Amanda Kolson Hurley is well-acquainted with suburbia's many negative stereotypes. But in a new book, she asks us to take a look at what is possible in this realm when the human spirit is at its best.
    by Etelka Lehoczky Apr 12, 2019 3 minutes
    <em>Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City</em>, by Amanda Kolson Hurley

    Think you know the suburbs? Well, it might be time to revisit.

    At least, that's what Amanda Kolson Hurley, a senior editor at urban news site CityLab, wants you to do. Kolson Hurley is well-acquainted with suburbia's numerous negative stereotypes — some of them, such as racial segregation and ecological threat, all too valid. But in , Kolson Hurley sets out to reveal a different side of the vast patchwork of not-quite-urban, not-quite-rural zones in

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