I’m reading a book by James Howard Kunstler this week, the highly opinionated writer and architectural theorist. I was reminded of his talk to the TED conference on why the suburbs are unsustainable, de-humanising, and generally a bad idea:
- JHK’s rambling website is here, complete with article archives, ‘eyesore of the month’, bad language, and paintings for sale.
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[...] April 17, 2009 The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler Posted by Jeremy under books, energy and fuels, sustainability, transition towns | Tags: james howard kunstler, long emergency, peak oil | No Comments James Howard Kunstler has a knack for observing the way we live, and imagining what that will mean for the future as current trends unfold. He built his reputation around his theories of suburbia, best described in his book ‘The Geography of Nowhere’, which was required reading on my university course. (See post earlier this week for a summary lecture on suburbs) [...]
[...] exactly the kind of trend predicted by movies like The End of Suburbia, authors like James Howard Kunstler, or new urbanism projects like Reburbia. Sprawling suburbias are in for a tough time once the [...]