Main entry:

Kunstler, James Howard.

Title & Author:

The KunstlerCast : conversations with James Howard Kunstler / [interviewed by] Duncan Crary.

Publication:

Gabriola, Island, BC : New Society Publishers, 2011.

Description:

xvii, 300 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 16 cm

Notes:
"The tragic comedy of urban sprawl."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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 -- American culture. Social critic ; Throwaway culture and the plastic fantastic ; Americas are scary-looking and infantile ; Dude, we've got technology -- Architecture. The starchitects ; Brutalism -- Getting there. Making other arrangements ; Reinvesting in rail ; Water transit -- 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 -- Urban polemicists. Jane Jacobs ; Lewis Mumford -- Parting words. Packin' for France ; Cassandra ; Legacy.

Summary:

A collection of edited transcripts of interviews of author/commentator James Howard Kunstler conducted by journalist Duncan Crary for the podcast KunstlerCast.

ISBN:

9780865716933 (paperback)
0865716935 (paperback)

Subject:

Kunstler, James Howard Interviews.
Kunstler, James Howard Entretiens.
Kunstler, James Howard
Authors, American 20th century Interviews.
Sociology, Urban United States.
Cities and towns United States Growth.
Écrivains américains 20e siècle Entretiens.
Sociologie urbaine États-Unis.
Villes États-Unis Croissance.
Authors, American
Cities and towns Growth
Sociology, Urban
United States

Form/genre:

Interviews.
interviews.

Added entries:

Crary, Duncan.
Avidor, Ken, 1955-

Kunstler Cast

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 275650
Call No.: BIB 209986
Status: Available