Thirty-five years ago, Bill Owens took his Pentax 6 by 7 into the Tri-Valley cul-de-sacs of Livermore, Pleasanton and Dublin and shot residents sitting in lawn chairs in their driveways and barbecuing ...

We’re all familiar with a certain political geography. Democrats win the cities, Republicans win the rural areas, and the battlegrounds are in the suburbs. Democrats win the denser inner-ring suburbs ...

They have a name for places like ours — the fast-growing communities on the outer fringe, beyond the suburbs of major metropolitan communities, with a growing number of urban commuters: Exurbia. A few ...

I have argued that the term exurban has been used in a scandalously confused way, categorizing so much of suburbia as exurban that the term loses any meaning. In particular, I took a close look at the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Franktown – Atop what is now 170 acres of wide-open land smothered in wispy blond grasses, sandpaper-tough underbrush and the occasional pine tree, Russ ...

Regarding Allen Best’s provocative story on exurbia, I think he paints with too broad a brush (HCN, 6/13/05: How dense can we be?). There are those of us living in paradise who try to do so with ...

Exurbia is “the breeding and staging ground for the far-right insurgency, and, therefore, the battleground of American democracy,” claims journalist Masciotra (I Am Somebody) in this unsparing inquiry ...

One recent sunny Saturday, Vince Seville, 36, assistant professor of engineering at California’s Fresno State College, looked up from the breakfast table and said to his wife: “Mom, pack us a lunch.