Well dang it if cheap-ish gas prices aren't here again, after their scary highs of '08.James Howard Kunstler, prophet of doom, blogger ("Clusterfuck Nation"), author, novelist, wrote this book way back in 1993, but it has that timeless feel. It was written in 1994 and I don't think we'll ever wake up, although our current neverending recession might be just the impetus to get things going back to normal. He hates suburbs and shopping malls and big box stores; most of all, he hates privately owned automobiles. There is nothing like a little James Howard Kunstler to make you feel like a complete asshole and Capitalist whore. the section regarding public space comparing us cities to french cities really resonated with me - growing up in a small suburban town, my friends and I would often hang out in supermarkets etc which always felt normal in practice but odd to explain. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. He lives in upstate New York.Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Declineof America'S Man-Made LandscapeSign up to get exclusive offers, the best in books & more.Plus, enjoy 10% off your next online purchase over $50.You may unsubscribe at any time. Somebody or something peed on the author's cornflakes as he got up on the wrong side of the bed. He likes public transit. Geography Of Nowhere Book Summary : Argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy; and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs. by Free Press An idealistic and unrealistic view of architecture and land use. It would be nice if we all could live in perfect little towns like Woodstock, Vermont, but that's not going to happen. Not much we could have done to resist the allure of the car and its call to freedom and individualism but Kunstler has told of our descent from living into existing like drones with relish, enthusiasm, and sarcasm.

Local zoning laws are often inane and archaic. Instead of harping on the negative consequences of vehicular life I would have like to have some visionary solutions to get us out of the abscess.

His basic premise is that the fundamental American bias towards private property rights has created a culture weak in community- and this bias has combined with an over-reliance on the automobile to produce "nowhere" places- suburbias with no-center, endless highways of stripmalls, and millions of units of crap-housing.

There is the thrust of Kunstler's book, a stirring if somewhat flawed look at our degraded landscape.In describing a certain way of viewing the landscape, Kunstler makes the observation that a Jacksonian student of landscape can study a fast food place (in his example a place called the Red Barn that looks like a red barn) and "never arrive at the conclusion that the Red Barn is an ignoble piece of shit that degrades the community."

But it's an informed and passionate rant. For instance citing Portland as a positive city.Second Look Books: The geography of nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler (Simon and Schuster, New York 1993) Second Look Books: The geography of nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler (Simon and Schuster, New York 1993) Prince Charles accused them of being artless, mediocre and contemptuous of public opinion.
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Kunstler does an excellent job of covering this up until the publication date of this book 25 years ago. We’d love your help. This is a great book about the evolution of architecture in America. His newest prophesy is that the American suburb is dead, but this book only predicts that with its strangely-plausible sounding doomsday warnings and vehement attacks against anyone so blind enough to want the myth that is the American Dream. The great expanse of America was ours for the taking, and take it we did, throwing aside the concepts of villages and civic harmony. The geography of nowhere : the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape, James Howard Kunstler Resource Information The item The geography of nowhere : the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape, James Howard Kunstler represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library . It's a shame it What a rant against life as we know it! He likes small towns. But it's an informed and passionate rant. Add this to the sniping at religion and Ronald Reagan and the author's main point of the ugliness of the modern city is lost.
Let me know if you're interested, and I'll find you a copy.How did many of our American cities evolve into the mess they are in?

The fun of this book is Kunstler's palpable rage, which leaps off every page in the form of humorous rants against the ugliness and alienating qualities of the American built landscape.

In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settl He draws some erroneous parallels (e.g. The review below was published in another form in my friend's zine. In his most recent non-fiction book, The Long Emergency (2005), he arguesJames Howard Kunstler (born 1948) is an American author, social critic, and blogger who is perhaps best known for his book The Geography of Nowhere, a history of suburbia and urban development in the United States. holding Disney World to the standard of anything but an amusement park) but does make an effective point regarding how U.S. citizens were ill-prepared for the after effects of the heyday of the automobile.This is book is largely a rant--well-researched and eloquent--but a rant nonetheless. Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape I started reading this book in oh...2012?


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