Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.