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When James Howard Kunstler isn't railing against suburban sprawl, he's painting it. Vincent van Gogh painted the peasant sleeping by the haystack bec…
17 years, 8 months ago
KunstlerCast #10: Children of the Burbs
Is raising children in suburbia a form of child abuse? What happens to developing people when public space is the berm between the Wal-Mart and the K…
17 years, 8 months ago
KunstlerCast #9: Urban Planning
James Howard Kunstler is one of the most vocal critics of modern urban planning. So it's only fair that in this show Jim fields some questions from t…
17 years, 9 months ago
KunstlerCast #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 ough…
17 years, 9 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…
17 years, 9 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 st…
17 years, 9 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 hoodwi…
17 years, 10 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 mo…
17 years, 10 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…
17 years, 10 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. T…
17 years, 10 months ago