I was living in a neighborhood that was really dense. How does your experience living in suburbs conflict with popular ideas about them?Īmanda Hurley: One of the experiences that led me to write the book was living in a suburb of DC in Maryland that’s really not at all stereotypical, despite being suburban. Mother Jones: Y ou write that the misinformed clichés that still define suburbia in the popular imagination drive you crazy. I caught up with Hurley, who used to be my editor at CityLab, and talked to her about the lessons we can learn today from the radical suburbs of the past. Neighborhoods are not static and neither are suburbs. The Monkees’ 1967 song “Pleasant Valley Sunday” captured the cliché by describing a place with “rows of houses that are all the same and no one seems to care,” where there’s a TV in every room “here in status-symbol land.”Īmanda Kolson Hurley, an editor at CityLab, author of Radical Suburbs, and resident of Silver Spring, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC), knows that real-life suburbia is a “dizzyingly broad category.” Her book explores the stereotypes of traditional, largely white areas oriented around single-family homes, but especially focuses on radical suburbs, including those formed by anarchists and civil rights activists. The typical suburb as it is stereotyped in the popular imagination is white, wealthy, and conformist.
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