Kunstler Slams Atlanta

The Atlantic Journal-Constitution reviews James Howard Kunstler's new book, "The City in Mind," in which he condemns Atlanta as a 'giant misbegotten organism'. "It baffles and enrages Kunstler that a state and a nation that could produce an urban gem like Savannah could so utterly fail to learn and build upon that successful pattern. Elsewhere, Kunstler has noted that the traditional town-building practices of the South did much to inspire the design techniques of the new urbanism movement. Now, most of those practices are rendered illegal in Atlanta and elsewhere by local zoning and development codes." Atlanta residents and academics respond.