Amanda Kolson Hurley is an American journalist specializing in architecture and urban issues. Her book Radical Suburbs, on progressive and utopian suburban communities of the 19th and 20th centuries, was released in April 2019. Hurley is currently an editor at CityLab, the online urban-affairs publication of The Atlantic. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The American Scholar, Places, and many other publications. In 2017, she won the American Institute of Architects’ Conroy Prize for architectural writing. She lives in the suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.