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Tag Archives: James Kunstler
Too Much Magic: Same arguments, different cover
Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation© 2012 Jim Kunstler336 pages Twelve years ago, at the urging of my sociology professor, I attended a lecture on Peak Oil and the Future of Suburbia, by a … Continue reading
This Just In
During the weekend I said in comments here that I would love to see a book about spontaneous or emergent order that crossed disciplines. Well, by golly, now there is one — and it’s by Matt Ridley, who penned The … Continue reading
The Long Emergency
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century© 2005 James Howard Kunstler336 pages Well, we’re in for it. Such is the lesson of The Long Emergency, which predicts that the … Continue reading
Home from Nowhere
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century© 1998 James Howard Kunstler320 pages “History doesn’t believe anybody’s advertising.” (p.1) James Howard Kunstler penned The Geography of Nowhere in an attempt to answer the question: why is America … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, cities, civic awareness, humanities, James Kunstler, Politics-CivicInterest, urbanism
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The Witch of Hebron
The Witch of Hebron© 2010 James Howard Kunstler334 pages The future isn’t what it used to be. When the oil wells ran dry, the global economy and every nation built on petroleum collapsed. This is the dawn of a new … Continue reading
The City in Mind
The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition© 2001 James Howard Kunstler272 pages The study of civilization is nothing less than the study of the culture of cities. Humanity has survived on the Earth for hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, humanities, James Kunstler, social criticism, Society and Culture, urbanism
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The KunstlerCast
The KunstlerCast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler …the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl. © 2011 Duncan Crary, James Howard Kunstler 300 pages James Howard Kunstler is a journalist turned social critic and the author of numerous books, most prominently The … Continue reading
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Tagged futurism, James Kunstler, social criticism, Society and Culture, urbanism
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The Geography of Nowhere
The Geography of Nowhere: the Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape© 1993 James Howard Kunstler303 pages Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same There’s a green one, … Continue reading
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Tagged history, humanities, infrastructure, James Kunstler, social criticism, Society and Culture
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World Made By Hand
World Made By Hand© 2008, James KunstlerAtlantic Monthly Press, NY317 pages I think this is the first book I’ve ever seen with its own trailer — with the narration taken directly from the plot summary on the book’s dust cover. … Continue reading
