I read this book as I was beginning my degree in community development at a college of urban planning and policy. Detroit Portland, Oregon Los Angeles ; Saratoga Springs in New York's Capital District; Disney World Atlantic City Book Notes. Overwrought with cynicism, it is hard to distinguish Kunstler's reasonable concerns from his own sense of nostalgia. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Really enjoyed this. This was a drab book about a bleak subject using bland language.

In his most recent non-fiction book, The Long Emergency (2005), he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society and force Americans to live in localized, agrarian communities.“Community is not something you have, like pizza.
to me this seems like one of the main reasons nyc and the like are so popular for their uniqueness to bring people together in a way all but forgotten in most of the remainder of us cities. Throughout the book he proclaims how the car has ruined America and how the American city or town will never be "home" until the car is removed from the equation. This is book is largely a rant--well-researched and eloquent--but a rant nonetheless. Local zoning laws are often inane and archaic. 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. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television if the families chief connection to the world. There were two good chapters: #6 Joyride and #11 Three Cities, which gave a few accomplishments. Add this to the snipAlthough the author makes some good points in his yearning to return cities to proper functionality, that is with people as the focus of life, he fails to see the importance of private productive property and the role of family in accomplishing his goals. And it was the automobile. But a rant with which I, mostly, agree.Kunstler hates suburbia, sprawl, and corporate control, and champions well-planned cities and towns, public space, and democracy.

Now is it something you can buy. 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. Starting with colonial times, he examines how we have used (and misused) land for individual, rather than group purposes. Pure and simple. The car created the suburb and then the rise of industrial agriculture-all are the villains in our loss of community. There is nothing like a little James Howard Kunstler to make you feel like a complete asshole and Capitalist whore. The author instead blames many of America's woes on the car. He's not optimistic about the future of this civ"The Geography of Nowhere" tends towards the polemic, but through most of the book I found myself agreeing with Kunstler's ideas. The author instead blames many of America's woes on the car. It appears he revisits this in his sequel, Home from Nowhere, which is on my bookshelf, waiting to be read. He likes mixed use areas. The Geography of Nowhere is a satisfying read because he is able to explain the causes of our offensive landscapes and explain why it is that we are (or should) be repulsed by them. He likes public transit. Throughout the book he proclaims how the car has ruined America and how the American city or town will never be "home" until the car is removed from the equation. The old joke was that they had inflicted more damage on London than the Luftwaffe, but it wasn’t funny and nobody was laughing.Although the author makes some good points in his yearning to return cities to proper functionality, that is with people as the focus of life, he fails to see the importance of private productive property and the role of family in accomplishing his goals. Places Discussed. He is prominently featured in the peak oil documentary, The End of Suburbia, widely circulated on the internet.
Sometimes you get a little tired of all the criticism heaped upon America and our way of doing things, but then you realize he's right.James 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.

Your review has been submitted and will appear here shortly.James Howard Kunstler is the author of eight novels. He is absolutely right that by prioritizing roads over neighborhoods; utility over aesthetics and cars over all else, we've disconnected from each other in innumerable civic and social ways. 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." Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape


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