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A collection of edited transcripts of podcast interviews of author/commentator James Howard Kunstler conducted by journalist Duncan Crary.
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Urban Sociology, Interviews, Growth, American Authors, Cities and towns, Social problems, United states, social life and customsPeople
James Howard KunstlerPlaces
United StatesTimes
20th centuryEdition | Availability |
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The KunstlerCast: conversations with James Howard Kunstler
2011, New Society Publishers
in English
0865716935 9780865716933
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Table of Contents
The geography of nowhere. The glossary of nowhere ; The human habitat ; America's honeymoon with cities is over ; Mandating suburbia ; Children of the burbs ; Sprawling to obesity ; The architecture of suburbia ; Picturing suburbia ; Sprawl defenders ; The politics of place ; Boomers : back to the burbs
The end of suburbia. Charging our way to suburbia ; The New Urbanism ; Seaside ; From suburban sprawl to peak oil ; Keep the car running ? ; The foreseeable future ; Doomers ; Retooling suburbia
American culture. Social critic ; Throwaway culture and the plastic fantastic ; Americas are scary-looking and infantile ; Dude, we've got technology
Architecture. The starchitects ; Brutalism
Getting there. Making other arrangements ; Reinvesting in rail ; Water transit
The city in mind. the green metropolis? ; Contracting cities ; City by city ; City flybys ; Small cities and towns ; Concentrating poverty ; Anti-urban bias ; Missing teeth in the urban fabric ; A drugstore on every corner
Urban polemicists. Jane Jacobs ; Lewis Mumford
Parting words. Packin' for France ; Cassandra ; Legacy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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