Suburbia: An Endangered Species?

James Howard Kunstler discusses suburbia as an endangered species in the light of oil peak and human social needs. [Link corrected.]

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March 27, 2003, 1:00 PM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen


The following is an excerpt from an interview with James Howard Kunstler by Global Public Media: "So what I imagine is that it’s going to represent a kind of an economic catastrophe, as its disutility becomes manifest and its associated value vanishes, and the people who have invested their life savings in things like McHouses and suburban property of all kinds are going to find that they’ve been ruined and impoverished by this mis-investment. And I think the net effect is we’re going to see a mad scramble in the suburbs as people try to get out, and of course there are going to be very few buyers for this stuff, and the value of all the property of all kinds, commercial, residential, office, you-name-it, is going to crash and there’s going to be a kind of fight over the table scraps of the twentieth century out there."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 in Global Public Media

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