false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900786m/125313.jpg 125313 2 <I>The Geography of Nowhere</I> 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.<P>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. <I>The Geography of Nowhere</I> 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. <I>"The future will require us to build better places,"</I> Kunstler says, <I>"or the future will belong to other people in other societies."</I><P> 120689 book 1993 Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape total:628|5:217|4:263|3:127|2:17|1:4| 628 2556 1071 120 3 3 false false Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 06:00:28 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 10:22:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Dec 21 05:56:41 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 06:37:16 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 10 13:10:44 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 13:20:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jun 20 17:12:45 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 13:57:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 25 13:26:38 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 09 19:10:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 25 11:18:24 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 11:20:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 04 12:38:23 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 13:35:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 true false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jan 01 17:19:57 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 17:26:43 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 05 17:02:55 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 17:39:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jan 26 13:04:40 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 13:10:11 -0800 2009 My favorite so far:
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Kunstler makes an elegant argument about what we want in architecture and what Americans have done to make that impossible.

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'Born in 1948, I have lived my entire life in America's high imperial moment. During this epoch of stupendous wealth and power, we have managed to ruin our greatest cities, throw away our small towns, and impose over the countryside a joyless junk habitat which we can no longer ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:12:13 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 00:23:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 30 11:48:54 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 11:51:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 24 04:41:59 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 05:09:32 -0800 2009 could be done) and p...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 27 09:26:52 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 09:26:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=125313