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What do you think of James Howard Kunstler, author "The Geography of Nowhere," "Home from Nowhere," and "The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition"?
I read his first two books and read him in a number of published interviews over the past two years. My sense is that he is a loud-mouthed, vulgar, polemicizer who loves his hometown in New York state so much that he wants all of America to feel the same way! In short, the stuff that guy writes makes him sound like a grumpy old kook.
Have you visited wwww.kunstler.com recently? Perhaps the most interesting feature of that site is the "Architectural Blunders" section. Follow the link and you will find poor photos of supposedly bad design and horrible architecture. And the writing! Wow, be sure to cover you eyes, cuz ya know he writes the most unbiased analyses. [Yeah, right!] And don't forget to peruse his articles in "Clustefuck Nation Chronicles," a thoughtful title meant to convey an affectionate nostalgia for all that America yearns to be... yet is never able to attain.
Okay, so what do you think? Is he an urban planning prophet, a light of hope sparkling through the evil darkness of our suburban hells? Or is he just a grumpy old kook bent on polarizing the planning and architecture professions in order to create the requisite controversy that swiflty moves books off the shelves of Borders?
I read his first two books and read him in a number of published interviews over the past two years. My sense is that he is a loud-mouthed, vulgar, polemicizer who loves his hometown in New York state so much that he wants all of America to feel the same way! In short, the stuff that guy writes makes him sound like a grumpy old kook.
Have you visited wwww.kunstler.com recently? Perhaps the most interesting feature of that site is the "Architectural Blunders" section. Follow the link and you will find poor photos of supposedly bad design and horrible architecture. And the writing! Wow, be sure to cover you eyes, cuz ya know he writes the most unbiased analyses. [Yeah, right!] And don't forget to peruse his articles in "Clustefuck Nation Chronicles," a thoughtful title meant to convey an affectionate nostalgia for all that America yearns to be... yet is never able to attain.
Okay, so what do you think? Is he an urban planning prophet, a light of hope sparkling through the evil darkness of our suburban hells? Or is he just a grumpy old kook bent on polarizing the planning and architecture professions in order to create the requisite controversy that swiflty moves books off the shelves of Borders?