At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.
James Howard KunstlerI think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core.
James Howard KunstlerThe 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.
James Howard KunstlerThe two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things
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