The KunstlerCast
Subtitle: conversations with James Howard Kunstler
By: [interviewed by] Duncan Crary ; [art by Ken Avidor]
Contributors: Crary, Duncan
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gabriola, BC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780865716933
Subjects: Urban Sociology; Interviews; Growth; American Authors; Cities and towns
Other titles: Kunstler Cast; Conversations with James Howard Kunstler
Description: A collection of edited transcripts of podcast interviews of author/commentator James Howard Kunstler conducted by journalist Duncan Crary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The geography of nowhere. The glossary of nowhere ; The human habitat ; America's honeymoon with cities is over ; Mandating suburbia ; Children of the burbs ; Sprawling to obesity ; The architecture of suburbia ; Picturing suburbia ; Sprawl defenders ; The politics of place ; Boomers : back to the burbs; title: The end of suburbia. Charging our way to suburbia ; The New Urbanism ; Seaside ; From suburban sprawl to peak oil ; Keep the car running ? ; The foreseeable future ; Doomers ; Retooling suburbia; title: American culture. Social critic ; Throwaway culture and the plastic fantastic ; Americas are scary-looking and infantile ; Dude, we've got technology; title: Architecture. The starchitects ; Brutalism; title: Getting there. Making other arrangements ; Reinvesting in rail ; Water transit; title: The city in mind. the green metropolis? ; Contracting cities ; City by city ; City flybys ; Small cities and towns ; Concentrating poverty ; Anti-urban bias ; Missing teeth in the urban fabric ; A drugstore on every corner; title: Urban polemicists. Jane Jacobs ; Lewis Mumford; title: Parting words. Packin' for France ; Cassandra ; Legacy.