Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.
James Howard KunstlerFor instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.
James Howard KunstlerOf course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.
James Howard KunstlerThe living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.
James Howard KunstlerCommunity is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.
James Howard Kunstler