Rocking the Suburbs
RADICAL SUBURBS: EXPERIMENTAL LIVING ON THE FRINGES OF THE AMERICAN CITY
By Amanda Kolson Hurley
BELT PUBLISHING
$16.95; 174 PAGES
LONE STAR SUBURBS: LIFE ON THE TEXAS METROPOLITAN FRONTIER
Edited by Paul J. P. Sandul and M. Scott Sosebee
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
$24.95; 266 PAGES
MY OPINION OF THE SUBURBS CHANGED A FEW years ago on my first trip to the Katy Mills Mall, a sprawling shopping center just west of Houston. The place didn’t look like much from the outside—a white concrete behemoth then accented in ’90s primary colors, with a giant 3D red star adorning the sign out front.
