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	James Howard Kunstler: Biography and Photographs
		Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches.
		Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948.
		James Howard Kunstler in grown-up costume and winter hair-do.
	www.kunstler.com /bio.html (438 words)

	James Howard Kunstler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Howard Kunstler (born 1948) is an American author, social critic, and blogger who is perhaps best known for his book The Geography of Nowhere, a history of suburbia and urban development in the United States.
		Kunstler has been an outspoken critic of suburbia and urban development trends throughout the United States, and has been a leading proponent of the New Urbanism movement.
		While many find Kunstler's speeches and writings to be compelling due to his skilled use of narrative, his rhetorical style is notoriously short on subtlety, and is often profane.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Howard_Kunstler (568 words)

	James Howard Kunstler - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James Howard "Jim" Kunstler (born 1948) is an American author, public speaker, and social critic.
		Kunstler has been an outspoken critic of suburbia, urban development trends throughout the US, and the "American Way of Life", and has been a leading proponent of the New Urbanism movement.
		While Kunstler's speeches and writings are often enormously compelling due to his mastery of narrative, his rhetorical style is notoriously short on subtlety, and is often profane: "clusterfuck" and "bitchslap upside the head" are favorite terms of his, appearing at a rate of approximately once a page in his recent writings.
	voyager.in /James_Howard_Kunstler (539 words)

	Kunstler, James Howard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kunstler is well known for his critical views on modern urban design, architecture, and conditions.
		The chapters represent essays in which Kunstler either gives a personal view of conditions in these cities or reflects on some aspects of their histories as they were built.
		Kunstler shows the inadequacies of urban development, but fails to recognize the structural and evolutionary nature of diverse urban conditions in the 20th century.
	go.owu.edu /~aamahdi/kunstler.htm (209 words)

	James Howard Kunstler \| Global Public Media
		James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Long Emergency"
		James Howard Kunstler on relocalization and peak oil
		James Howard Kunstler: Remarks to the Commonwealth Club of California
	www.globalpublicmedia.com /people/james_howard_kunstler (138 words)

	The Morning News - James Howard Kunstler, by Robert Birnbaum
		James Howard Kunstler was born in New York, moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954, and in 1957 returned to the city, where he spent most of his childhood.
		JHK: No, what I wanted to do, especially as I became a teenager, was really move to a small town and date girls who had vowels in their names and go bass fishing and ride motorcycles.
		JHK: A Chinese fire drill is a stunt that fraternity guys used to do—you pull up to a red light in a car, everybody in the car gets out and runs around the car four times and gets back into the car and drives away.
	www.themorningnews.org /archives/birnbaum_v/james_howard_kunstler.php (7729 words)

	James Howard Kunstler \| Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
		James Howard Kunstler is a novelist and journalist who condemns the car-dependent suburbanization of America and explores alternative forms of urban development.
		Kunstler uses pointed and personal polemic to call attention to the decay of America’s cities and places, tallying up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle.
		Kunstler’s novel The Geography of Nowhere served as 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.
	www.pps.org /info/placemakingtools/placemakers/jhkunstler (1236 words)

	Three Monkeys Chaos in the City. Architecture, Modernism and Peak Oil Production - James Kunstler in Interview (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kunstler’s prose (he is also a novelist) ranges from energetic to downright pugilistic and his books on urban planning issues and the growth of the suburbs make lively reading.
		Most of the resistance Kunstler runs up against comes from people with vested interests in urban sprawl, he tells me. “I’ve been all over the country several times over and most ‘normal’ people out there are very distressed about what has happened to their towns and cities.
		Kunstler, though, is not too worried about the influence of these mega-chains: “I believe that the format of giant chain stores is a temporary phenomenon, a product of certain anomalous economic conditions that will not continue in the decades to come.
	www.threemonkeysonline.com /threemon_printable.php?id=179 (3335 words)

	e design Online: James Howard Kunstler: A Critical Analysis of the Seaside Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is apparent that Kunstler is equating the European culture to that of this country.
		Kunstler casts a blind eye to the attributes of the American landscape he deems corruptible and inappropriate such as the strip malls, fast-food restaurants, and sprawl.
		James Kunstler's remarks to the Seaside Institute, although not aimed at the owners but at the critics of Seaside, were brash and to the point.
	www.myflorida.com /fdi/edesign/news/9712/com-jhk.htm (916 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape - James ...
		In The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where everyplace is like noplace in particular, where the city is a dead zone and the countryside a wasteland of cars and fltop.
		Kunstler takes the reader on a historical journey to understand how Americans came to view their landscape as a commodity for exploitation rather than a social resource.
		Kunstler, who writes ably, casts a very wide net: he finds the roots of American individualism in pre-colonial property ownership, decries the abstracting influence of modernism on city architecture and slams road-builder Robert Moses to support his contention that suburbia is a social environment without soul.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=3B6sEQBAwC&isbn=0671888250&itm=1 (871 words)

	James Howard Kunstler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A writer who specializes in the new urbanism, Kunstler is the author of Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (Simon and Schuster, 1996).
		Kunstler lived in Greater Boston from 1972 to '73, and wrote for the Boston Phoenix.
		One of the great blunders that we made in American urbanism in the 20th century was to bring the limited-access freeway into the heart of the city.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/news/97/07/17/JAMES_HOWARD_KUNSTLER.html (473 words)

	Illahee - James Howard Kunstler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kunstler envisions a "low energy" world that will be radically different from today's society.
		James Howard Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948.
		Kunstler is worried that a nation that is already too passive and clueless will respond to hard times by demanding to be pushed around by politicians ("Tell me what to do!").
	www.illahee.org /lectures/archive/kunstlerlecture (882 words)

	The Daily Page: James Howard Kunstler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kunstler is the author of The Geography of Nowhere, nine novels and the forthcoming book The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century.
		Kunstler decries America's transformation from a nation of vital places and communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular - a "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside." He condemns the car-dependent suburbanization of America and explores alternative forms of urban development.
		Kunstler's visit is sponsored by the Wisconsin Student Planning Association and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series Committee.
	www.thedailypage.com /going-out/theguide/event.php?id=112249 (239 words)

	frontwheeldrive.com: james howard kunstler interview (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James Howard Kunstler has more such stories than most.
		He's made it his business to document the ills of suburban sprawl, completely whacked zoning laws, and the politics of urban development, as well as the people who are doing things right.
		James Howard Kunstler: I observed the goddamned mess that we were making out of our landscape AND townscapes and it occurred to me that this represented a significant problem for the future of our nation.
	frontwheeldrive.com /james_howard_kunstler.html (806 words)

	After the oil is gone - Salon
		A former journalist turned novelist turned social critic, Kunstler is best known for his book excoriating the suburbs, "Geography of Nowhere." Now he foresees the end of the entire artifice of American life, from the suburbs to the interstate highway to Wal-Mart and the global supply chain that supports it.
		In Kunstler's world, a teenager will be better off learning how to yoke up a horse-drawn buggy than how to change the oil in a car.
		Salon spoke to Kunstler at his home in upstate New York, mindful that in the future such an hour-long, cross-country telephone call, undertaken so casually, could be a remote luxury, a quaint remnant of a bygone era rich in the splendors of oil.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/05/14/kunstler/index.html (1382 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: An Interview with James Howard Kunstler
		For this reason, there was no passive acceptance from the WC editorial team when James Howard Kunstler's "we're screwed" attititude gained attention around the release of his 2005 The Long Emergency.
		Kunstler's only problem is that he doesn't seem to give any concrete ideas about what we can do--as individuals, as groups, as businesses, as organizations, as governments.
		Kunstler does a great job of bringing together many aspects of our predicament and putting them into a logical order so more people will understand where we are and how we got here.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/004617.html (3259 words)

	Treehugger: Interview with James Howard Kunstler
		James Howard Kunstler is the author of the provocative and controversial The Long Emergency,and graciously agreed to be interviewed by Treehugger.
		JHK: I was pretty harsh on Lovins myself, and on the “environmental community” in general, which I think has been narcissistic and fantasy-ridden – for instance my criticism of Lovins’s “hyper-car” project, which I believe only encourages further car dependency.
		JHK: I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.
	www.treehugger.com /files/2005/06/interview_with_1.php (2278 words)

	Andrew Spicer's Weblog - James Howard Kunstler
		James Howard Kunstler came to Toronto, and gave a talk at Hart House entitled "Surviving Suburba in the 21st Century".
		I had seen Kunstler's books before, but hadn't been as interested in them as others on this same subject because they seemed to be very "American" and also focused entirely on traditional aesthetic aspects over environmental/sustainability ones.
		One insight in Kunstler's talk was that the suburban household is the result of an impossible desire to enjoy a rural lifestyle, with the benefits of the city nearby.
	www.andrewspicer.com /article46.html (1183 words)

	Amazon.com: The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century: Books: James Howard ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kunstler's critique of contemporary society is caustic and scintillating as usual, but his prognostications strain credibility.
		Kunstler's book is pointing out that there may not be enough time left to make an orderly transition out of our oil-based economy; the political, social, economic and environmental conditions are not good and history is not on our side.
		Kunstler's biggest problem is that he refuses to even entertain the idea that human ingenuity can find a way to live on without practically dying off and reverting to isolationist nomads.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871138883?v=glance (2707 words)

	Columbus RetroMetro: James Howard Kunstler on Peak Oil
		James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, is shown in a 5-part video series on the state the "oil mess" as he sees it.
		Kunstler is quite clearly on the alarmist side of the issue but his history of oil and other insights are very educating.
		Kunstler offers a casual history of the industrial experience (fossil fuel use), from the 17th century up to the modern period.
	columbusretrometro.typepad.com /columbus_retrometro/2006/03/james_howard_ku.html (426 words)

	Powell's Books - The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition by James Howard Kunstler
		Kunstler's examination of these cities is at once a concise history of their urban lives and a detailed criticism of how those histories have either aided or hindered the social and civil progress of the cities' occupants.
		Here, Kunstler turns his discerning eye to urban life in America and beyond in dazzling excursions to classical Rome, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, Louis-Napoleon's Paris, the "gigantic hairball" that is contemporary Atlanta, the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, and more.
		Seeking to discover what is constant and enduring in cities at their greatest, Kunstler explores how America got lost in suburban wilderness and locates pathways that might lead to civic revival.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0684845911-2 (671 words)

	Resource Insights: James Howard Kunstler's America of the Future
		James Howard Kunstler is probably America's foremost critic of the suburb.
		Kunstler provides a vivid and chilling picture in this interview given in 2003.
		I expect Kunstler to address these issues in more detail in his upcoming book, "The Long Emergency," to be released in this spring.
	resourceinsights.blogspot.com /2005/01/james-howard-kunstlers-america-of.html (439 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kunstler strips the bark off the utopian social engineering promoted by the machine-worshiping Modern movement of Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright and skewers the intellectual camps (e.g., Venturi) that have thrived on making...
		Kunstler's informed report may come off as a rant, but he does speak from a place of genuine concern.
		Kunstler had no formal training at the time he wrote the book and channels his anger and cynicism towards his surroundings into an effective - yet readable - analysis of our cities.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671707744 (1196 words)

	Amazon.com: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape: Books: James Howard Kunstler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kunstler makes the case that prior to the development of suburbia and the reign of automobiles as our primary form of transportation, we had a kinder, cleaner, and happier world.
		Kunstler argues that people are happy this way because they don't know any better, and he's probably right, but as far as I know there is no good way to force people to appreciate beauty.
		Kunstler passionately believes that the automobile is the root of all evil.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671888250?v=glance (3101 words)

	The Believer - Interview with James Howard Kunstler
		With his latest book, The Long Emergency, Kunstler takes on a broader and even more vexing problem, joining a growing chorus of authors who warn that a rapidly approaching energy crisis is about to devastate the global economy and change everything about modern life.
		At a time when political commentary either hews tightly to pre-scripted ideology or is so insubstantial as to practically evaporate upon close reading, Kunstler is a throwback to an earlier era of fiercely independent public intellectuals who spoke directly and had little use for polite qualifiers.
		JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER: The first part of that question seems tautological to me. I’ll try to address the other part.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200511?read=interview_kunstler (1087 words)

	"The End of Tall Buildings", by James H. Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros.
		We are convinced that the age of skyscrapers is at an end.
		By James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros.
		James Howard Kunstler is the author of the two books The Geography of Nowhere, and Home from Nowhere.
	www.math.utsa.edu /sphere/salingar/tallbuildings.html (2233 words)

	Klai::Juba Lecture Series
		Lecture Video Summary: James Howard Kunstler, who is an author and lecturer on architecture, discusses the architecture of Las Vegas and the aesthetics and the environmental aspects of architecture in the United States.
		Kunstler is the author of well known book titles such as City of the Mind, the Geography of Nowhere, and Home from nowhere.
		An absolutist in the city: James Howard Kunstler's unforgiving, controversial, and stinging diagnosis of the urban landscape - The city in mind: notes on the urban condition [book review].
	library.nevada.edu /arch/events/lectures/jameshowardkunstler.html (369 words)

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