The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
ISBN-13:
9780671888251
ISBN-10:
0671888250
Author:
James Howard Kunstler
Publication date:
1994
Publisher:
Free Press
Format:
Paperback
304 pages
Category:
Criticism
,
Architecture
,
Economics
,
Evolution
,
Human Geography
,
Social Sciences
,
Sociology
,
Politics & Government
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ISBN-13:
9780671888251
ISBN-10:
0671888250
Author:
James Howard Kunstler
Publication date:
1994
Publisher:
Free Press
Format:
Paperback
304 pages
Category:
Criticism
,
Architecture
,
Economics
,
Evolution
,
Human Geography
,
Social Sciences
,
Sociology
,
Politics & Government
Summary
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (ISBN-13: 9780671888251 and ISBN-10: 0671888250), written by authors
James Howard Kunstler, was published by Free Press in 1994.
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The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots.
In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. "The future will require us to build better places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to other people in other societies."
In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. "The future will require us to build better places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to other people in other societies."
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