The BURBS, Ever Evolving, Just Like The Rest Of America.

As Amy Plitt explores Jason Diamond’s books on suburbia, it becomes clear that the places many people are “from” are changing drastically and are no longer homogenous enclaves.

“As in his previous book, 2016’s Searching for John Hughes, Diamond mined his 1980s childhood in the suburbs of Chicago for material. But he also traveled to suburbs throughout the U.S. to try and understand how they went from being perceived as utopian enclaves to bland wastelands. Along the way, he discovered that hackneyed ideas about the homogeneity of suburbia don’t hold up.”

— Amy Plitt writing in Citylab Bloomberg