In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.
James Howard KunstlerWe don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.
James Howard KunstlerOn 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.
James Howard KunstlerTwo decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.
James Howard KunstlerA land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
James Howard Kunstler[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of history, and in the decades to come we will be comparatively destitute collectively. In short, we will not have the resources to retrofit most of suburbia.
James Howard Kunstler