Deconstructing Suburbia

The living arrangement Americans think of as normal is bankrupting the country economically, socially, ecologically, and spiritually.

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April 30, 2001, 6:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

Outspoken critic James Howard Kunstler discusses his feelings about "the cartoon landscape of car-clogged highways, strip malls, tract houses, franchise fry pits, parking lots, junked cities, and ravaged countryside... I began to realize that there was a whole body of knowledge called civic design that was making a reconnection with a whole body of historical knowledge that has been thrown away in the 20th century about the way to assemble a human habitat that was politically equitable, socially and spiritually satisfying, and equal to our aspirations as humans."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism

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Saturday, April 28, 2001 in The Social Developer

Social / Demographics United States

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