false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg 125314 3 Through magazine articles and through his previous book, <i>The Geography of Nowhere</i>, James Howard Kunstler has become one of the foremost decriers of the blighted urban landscape of the United States. Now, in this new sequel to the earlier book, Kunstler moves from description to prescription. The villains, Kunstler says, are zoning laws, real estate taxes, modernist architecture, and, particularly, the automobile. The solutions include multi-use zoning districts, car-free urban cores, revised tax laws, Beaux-Arts design principles, and, in particular, the neo-traditionalist school of architecture and city planning known as "new urbanism." It's possible to disagree with some of Kunstler's conclusions--the hope that large numbers of commuters will give up their single-passenger vehicles for public transit downtown has been discredited in city after city--without abandoning his larger goal: a return to a saner urban geography and, with it, to a saner way of life. 120690 1996 Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century total:186|5:46|4:80|3:48|2:8|1:4| 186 714 273 26 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 1 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 07:06:17 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 24 09:14:17 -0700 2008
I've loved other books of his, but this seems to be *mostly* rehashing of ideas already presented, and also just, well, arrogant and annoying.

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This is a fantastic and tantalizing read that w...more...]]> 538867 0684811960 9780684811963 9 6 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631103m/538867.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538867.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 5 0 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 04 19:14:32 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 19:14:32 -0800 2008 quotes: "We seem quite willing to build prisons with up to date amenities and comforts...If we put a fraction of the effort, money, and will into building decent orphanages, we probably wouldn't need so many state of ...more...]]> 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 1 0 false Tue Aug 12 20:27:01 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 18:38:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 0 0 false Sun Feb 01 19:56:09 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 19:56:09 -0800 2009 poor condition]]> 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 0 0 false Sat Dec 20 18:03:51 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 18:04:08 -0800 2008 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 4 0 false Sun Apr 12 09:17:07 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 09:17:27 -0700 2009 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Sun Mar 09 06:50:19 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 14:29:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 538867 0684811960 9780684811963 9 6 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631103m/538867.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538867.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 3 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Dec 27 08:58:23 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 08:58:23 -0800 2007 Geography From Nowhere, though the first one I read (I'm a bit backwards after all), this continues his general rant against evil sprawl with, I seem to recall, some focus towards the future. I agree with his opinions about the malaise of cities and towns in the face of big...more...]]> 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 4 0 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon May 28 14:25:18 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 14:25:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 5 0 false Mon Aug 04 10:44:49 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 10:46:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 538867 0684811960 9780684811963 9 6 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631103m/538867.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538867.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sat Feb 16 21:18:31 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 21:20:21 -0800 2008 ]]> 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 3 0 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Dec 20 08:19:01 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 08:20:21 -0800 2007
Except it isn't that simple.

And his brief discussion of gentrification is sort of ill-developed and not well thought-out.]]> 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 0 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 01:25:27 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 02 09:47:26 -0700 2007 http://peoplebooksdollars.blogspot.com/]]> 125314 0684837374 9780684837376 175 20 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900787m/125314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125314.Home_from_Nowhere_Remaking_Our_Everyday_World_for_the_21st_Century 4 0 false Tue Jun 17 14:42:18 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 15:11:52 -0700 2008 Well written, and oh so poignant. Makes you think bout why
our cities, and society, are so screwed up.
and some things to do about it.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=125314