![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kolson Hurley gives Greenbelt, Maryland, as an early example. The second strand is the desire to create replicable models of new suburban towns incorporating what we might now describe as “new urbanist principles.” These trade the detached house-and-yard ideal for a denser housing typology and planning that emphasizes shared and walkable patterns of use. The first was organized around a school and library the other two, a generation later, around young children's need for shared open space and their parents' need for mutual support. Kolson Hurley’s examples are an anarchist village embedded in a New Jersey railroad suburb, and two upwardly mobile, architect-designed residential enclaves outside Boston. The first is these founders’ desire to reshape their communities to serve their vision of a better life. Amanda Kolson Hurley considers the outliers, beta versions of what a suburb might be-from Economy, a mid-19th-century religious cooperative near Pittsburgh, to the New Deal's Greenbelt new towns, to postwar experiments like Concord Park north of Philadelphia. American suburbs, mined by novelists like John Cheever and, more recently, repopulated by Covid-19-rattled millennials seeking social distance and yards, veer between the utopian and the dystopic. ![]()
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