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Back to SearchKunstlerCast #8: The Glossary of Nowhere
When James Howard Kunstler wrote The Geography of Nowhere, it was to give people "the vocabulary to understand what's wrong with the places they ought to know best." In this installment we run down a…
Published on 17 years, 4 months ago
KunstlerCast #7: Fate of Flagstaff & Hydrogen Cars
A listener from Flagstaff, Ariz. wants to know what fate awaits his town in the post oil future. The verdict from Jim? At least it's not Phoenix, but most of Flagstaff looks like the service road aro…
Published on 17 years, 5 months ago
KunstlerCast #6: Zoning
Ya seen one town in America ya seen 'em all. But that's because they're all mandated to look that way! James Howard Kunstler tells the tragic story of zoning codes in the United States. At one t…
Published on 17 years, 5 months ago
KunstlerCast #5: Starchitects
How and why did Seattle build that hideous new public library? asks one listener from that city. James Howard Kunstler tells us how cities get hoodwinked into a status fashion contest to have a museu…
Published on 17 years, 5 months ago
KunstlerCast #4: Parking Garages
A listener from Columbus, Ohio shares the bad news about two proposed downtown parking garages. Even though James Howard Kunstler thinks the happy motoring scene in America is on the way out, he expl…
Published on 17 years, 5 months ago
KunstlerCast #3: World Made By Hand
James Howard Kunstler reads from World Made By Hand, his new novel based on the post-oil future. Published by The Atlantic Monthly Press, World Made By Hand is set in upstate New York in the not dis…
Published on 17 years, 6 months ago
KunstlerCast #2: Small Cities & Towns
James Howard Kunstler describes the impending end of cheap oil, which he calls The Long Emergency. Suburbia is a living arrangement with no future. Things are going to get pretty gnarly in the big ci…
Published on 17 years, 6 months ago
KunstlerCast #1: Drugstores
James Howard Kunstler rips on drugstores: the one-story, junk food- dispensing boxes that masquerade as buildings on America's street corners. Topics include: monocultural zoning; big retail vs. mom …
Published on 17 years, 6 months ago