Amanda Kolson Hurley

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Amanda Kolson Hurley is a writer and architecture critic living the greater Washington, D.C., region. She is a senior editor at CityLab (formerly known as The Atlantic Cities), a division of Atlantic Media geared toward the future of cities. Prior to her joining CityLab, she wrote for Washington City Paper, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post after serving as senior editor, then executive editor, of Architect Magazine from 2006-2011. She is the 2017 recipient of the Sarah Booth Conroy Prize for Journalism and Architectural Criticism, awarded annually by the Washington, D.C. chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|DC).

Education

Hurley earned her M.A. from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She received her Ph.D. in literature from the University of Bristol in England.

Books

In 2004, Hurley released Catullus through Bristol Classical Press/Bloomsbury.

Her most recent book, Radical Suburbs, was released by Belt Publishing on April 9, 2019. In a review of Radical Suburbs for Metropolis Magazine, Tanner Howard writes that Hurley "aims to help designers rethink today’s suburbs by highlighting little-known historical examples," including Reston, Va.; Greenbelt, Md.; Six Moon Hill in Lexington, Mass.; Economy, Pa.; Stelton, N.J.; and Concord Park, Pa., among others. She notes that most of these planned communities have not gone exactly as planned, yet, as Etelka Lehoczky writes in her review for NPR, "With unapologetic idealism, she looks forward buoyantly to the results of that rethinking, anticipating changes such as creative tax breaks to encourage diversity, improved enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, and an increase in co-housing and other unorthodox — but equitable and eco-friendly — living arrangements.". Richard Florida calls the book "essential reading for every urbanist" in a review that proclaims: "Amanda Kolson Hurley will open your eyes to the wide diversity and rich history of our ongoing suburban experiment. This book gives us all a new way to understand our varied suburbias and how to engage a serious conversation about making them for twenty-first century life." Sierra Magazine news editor Heather Smith reviewed her book, Radical Suburbs, with this assessment: "Hurley, a senior editor at CityLab, has written a kind of Invisible Cities of urban planning—a short, concise collection of American dreams about what leaving the city and building a new community could mean, and what changed those dreams over time."

Criticism and Journalism

Hurley has written for numerous outlets and has bylines in CityLab, The Atlantic, Washington City Paper, The Washington Post, Architect Magazine, Washingtonian, Curbed, and others. Her 2016 article "Welcome to Disturbia" was one of Curbed's most widely-read articles.

External links

• Official website

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