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The main story James Howard Kunstler wants to tell in this book is how the beautiful and wild landscape of the North American continent was gradually but relentlessly ruined by its inhabitants; today, ‘most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy and spiritually degrading’, he laments and the main reason for this destruction is American individualism which leads to the neglect of the ...
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape is a book written in 1993 by James Howard Kunstler exploring the effects of suburban sprawl, civil planning, and the automobile on American society and is an attempt to discover how and why suburbia has ceased to be a credible human habitat, and what society might do about it.
- James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler, James Howard
- 1993
Don and Helen Crane were really the two most infatuated young parents she had every known, she thought indulgently, looking at the delicately embroidered baby cap and the lace-edged carriage cover. “That little girl is going to grow up expecting luxury all her life,” she said to Helen Crane. Helen laughed.
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Summary. Analysis. Miss Adela Strangeworth takes a trip into town to run some errands. She is in good spirits as she breathes in the fresh summer air and reflects on the beauty of the town that she has lived in her entire life. At age 71, she feels a sense of pride and ownership over the town.
Jan 1, 2001 · For book club, after extensive suggesting from a regular, we decided to read James Howard Kunstler’s The Geography of Nowhere, a book about suburban sprawl, and specifically about how cars have ruined the geography of American life, leaving us a nation full of un-walkable, car-centric residential tracts full of ugly buildings that isolate us from our neighbors. It’s got a very old man rant ...
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The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots. In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's ...
