Book Review: 'The City In Mind'

A review of "The City In Mind: Meditations On The Urban Condition" by James Howard Kunstler

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February 27, 2002, 9:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

James Howard Kunstler's 1993 book "The Geography of Nowhere" was an impassioned rant against suburbia, shopping malls, cheap disposable architecture and the fragmentation of communities fostered by an increasingly mobile, car-oriented culture. His latest book, 'The City in Mind,' is a sort of companion to that earlier volume, a jeremiad against poor urban planning and the decline of the American city."

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