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Books : The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 300
EAN: 9780671888251
ISBN: 0671888250
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 26, 1994
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press
Accessories:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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."
Rating:
- A total eye opener; ESSENTIAL reading for urban planners
As a student and professional of urban planning for nearly 20 years, I really wish I'd read this book in the mid-90s. Nevertheless, I walked away from this read yesterday, when I finished it, with a much broader perspective on where we are as a society and why.
For anyone who has ever tried to figure out the source and reasoning for their dissatisfaction with post-WW2 city growth, urban sprawl, and our reliance on the auto - this book is the Rosetta Stone to all those questions. ... Read More
Rating: - A must read for urban planners.
This is the first in James Howard Kuntsler's magnificent series of discussions about the community-killing errors we have made in the past while expanding and modernizing our existing urban environments.
Huge parking lots now separate the merchant from what used to be the Main Street of town, and monolithic big box stores present dead, windowless, and undecorated walls on three sides of the building.
What was once an interesting downtown area where people lived, shopped and mingled is ... Read More
Rating: - Launches a thought provoking salvo against sprawl
Kunstler is the Kerouac of the anti-sprawl set - the writer of this wonderful book that thoroughly indicts those non-places we all deal with every day. As every traveler can attest, sometimes you wake up in your Hampton Inn across from the Chili's, in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart/Target/Perkins, and wonder, "Just what city am I in today, anyway, and more importantly, do I care?"
This book is more about the unbearable sameness of everything and how it doesn't create places people want ... Read More
Rating:
- Angry, left wing slant to this book.....
I've only read a few chapters of this book but I can already get a sense of the author's left wing political leanings. He seems to think that cars are the root of all evil. (Just like author Jared Diamond seems to blame everything on deforestation--see his books).
Kunstler's book is also filled with bits of meaningless prose which seem to reflect some sort of personal ax to grind. Here's an example from page 219:
"Even after he became a showbiz mogul, Walt Disney's world view ... Read More
Rating:
- An Excellent Overview of America's Growth Culture
JHK puts together an excellent overview of the forces and personalities that defined today's American lifestyle and culture. It condenses four centuries of history, architecture, and science to create a sort of family tree of who we are as a nation and draws the map of how we got here. Not everything is perfect -- IMO he disparages Walt Disney unfairly -- but overall it is a good read that puts many of today's events in perspective.
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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Dewey Decimal Number: 300
EAN: 9780671888251
ISBN: 0671888250
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 26, 1994
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press
Accessories:
- The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition
- Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century
- Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
- Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)
- World Made by Hand: A Novel
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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."
Average Rating:
Rating:
- A total eye opener; ESSENTIAL reading for urban planners As a student and professional of urban planning for nearly 20 years, I really wish I'd read this book in the mid-90s. Nevertheless, I walked away from this read yesterday, when I finished it, with a much broader perspective on where we are as a society and why.
For anyone who has ever tried to figure out the source and reasoning for their dissatisfaction with post-WW2 city growth, urban sprawl, and our reliance on the auto - this book is the Rosetta Stone to all those questions. ... Read More
Rating:
- A must read for urban planners.This is the first in James Howard Kuntsler's magnificent series of discussions about the community-killing errors we have made in the past while expanding and modernizing our existing urban environments.
Huge parking lots now separate the merchant from what used to be the Main Street of town, and monolithic big box stores present dead, windowless, and undecorated walls on three sides of the building.
What was once an interesting downtown area where people lived, shopped and mingled is ... Read More
Rating:
- Launches a thought provoking salvo against sprawlKunstler is the Kerouac of the anti-sprawl set - the writer of this wonderful book that thoroughly indicts those non-places we all deal with every day. As every traveler can attest, sometimes you wake up in your Hampton Inn across from the Chili's, in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart/Target/Perkins, and wonder, "Just what city am I in today, anyway, and more importantly, do I care?"
This book is more about the unbearable sameness of everything and how it doesn't create places people want ... Read More
Rating:
- Angry, left wing slant to this book.....I've only read a few chapters of this book but I can already get a sense of the author's left wing political leanings. He seems to think that cars are the root of all evil. (Just like author Jared Diamond seems to blame everything on deforestation--see his books).
Kunstler's book is also filled with bits of meaningless prose which seem to reflect some sort of personal ax to grind. Here's an example from page 219:
"Even after he became a showbiz mogul, Walt Disney's world view ... Read More
Rating:
- An Excellent Overview of America's Growth CultureJHK puts together an excellent overview of the forces and personalities that defined today's American lifestyle and culture. It condenses four centuries of history, architecture, and science to create a sort of family tree of who we are as a nation and draws the map of how we got here. Not everything is perfect -- IMO he disparages Walt Disney unfairly -- but overall it is a good read that puts many of today's events in perspective.
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
