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Back to SearchKunstlerCast #27: Anti-urban Bias
This installment attempts to explore America's anti-urban bias. Topics include: environmentalists and the human habitat, suburban style housing proj…
17 years, 6 months ago
KunstlerCast #26: From Hippies to Yuppies
How did the granola crunching nature-loving hippies of the 1960s become the gas guzzling, McMansion dwelling, suburban yuppies of today? James Howard…
17 years, 7 months ago
KunstlerCast #25: Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Park
Frederick Law Olmsted is most noted for designing Central Park in Manhattan. His method of landscape design now serves as the main model for how we d…
17 years, 7 months ago
KunstlerCast #24: One City Block - Part 2
James Howard Kunstler continues his walking tour of one city
block in downtown Saratoga Springs,
N.Y., a classic Main-street
American town. We resum…
17 years, 7 months ago
KunstlerCast #23: One City Block - Part I
James Howard Kunstler often describes Saratoga Springs N.Y. as a classic Main Street American town. In part one of this special program, we take to t…
17 years, 7 months ago
KunstlerCast #22: Handicap Access
James Howard Kunstler explores the consequences of handicap access laws and codes, and how they have unintentionally promoted suburban sprawl through…
17 years, 7 months ago
KunstlerCast #19: Wishful Thinking
Religious activists are praying at Washington DC gas stations for cheaper fuel. James Howard Kunstler says that type of neurotic behavior isn't much …
17 years, 8 months ago
KunstlerCast #18: Pavement
Asphalt has become the default paving solution in America. And it's helped turn even side streets into mini freeways. It's ugly, it's bad for the env…
17 years, 8 months ago
KunstlerCast #17: San Francisco
A listener from San Francisco, who admits to suffering excessive civic pride for his hometown, asks James Howard Kunstler to critique The Golden Gate…
17 years, 9 months ago
KunstlerCast #16: Peak Oil New Zealand
A listener from New Zealand asks JamesHoward Kunstler what peak oil holds in store for his island nation. The picture isn't pretty. Kunstler says the…
17 years, 9 months ago