Revisiting America's Little-Known Experimental Suburbs
In a new book, CityLab editor Amanda Kolson Hurley wants architects and planners to take a fresh look at the suburbs.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Redesigned the Suburbs—Today's Architects Should Do the Same
Architects may not like it, but sprawl isn’t going away. Frank Lloyd Wright not only understood that, he dared to reimagine it.
What If...One Zoning Change Could Save Suburbia?
We have created a system in which Americans have no choice but to invest in a product that doesn’t meet their needs.
An Exhibition at MOCA Examines Local-Immigrant Tensions in Suburbia
An exhibition examines the fraught relationship between locals and immigrants in a suburban community.
Robert A.M. Stern on the Charms of Suburbia
A comprehensive history rescues the garden suburb from the periphery of urban design, and repositions it at the heart of the debate on cities.
The Condo, A Kind of Housing Model Every American Can Love
Mies Van Der Rohe's 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago (c/o Wayne Andrews/Esto) The subtitle of Matthew Gordon Lasner’s High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century (Yale University Press, 2012) might suggest a story of determined residential heterodoxy. Could this…
