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The KunstlerCast : conversations with James Howard Kunstler / [interviewed by] Duncan Crary ; [art by Ken Avidor].

Title
The KunstlerCast : conversations with James Howard Kunstler / [interviewed by] Duncan Crary ; [art by Ken Avidor].
Author
Kunstler, James Howard
Publication
Gabriola, BC : New Society Publishers, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Crary, Duncan
  • Avidor, Ken, 1955-
Description
xvii, 300 p. : ill.; 16 cm.
Summary
A collection of edited transcripts of podcast interviews of author/commentator James Howard Kunstler conducted by journalist Duncan Crary.
Alternative Title
  • Kunstler Cast
  • Conversations with James Howard Kunstler
Subject
  • Kunstler, James Howard > Interviews
  • 1900-1999
  • Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews
  • Sociology, Urban > United States
  • Cities and towns > United States > Growth
Genre/Form
Interviews
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780865716933
  • 0865716935
LCCN
^^2011508462
OCLC
  • 669755020
  • SCSB-10723785
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library