On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.