The geography of Nowhere
Subtitle: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape
By: James Howard Kunstler.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Architecture and society -- United States
Description: 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 evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. "The future will require us to build better places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to other people in other societies."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284) and index.