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The Geography of Nowhere

The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

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The Geography of Nowhere

De: James Howard Kunstler
Narrado por: Al Kessel
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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. The Geography of Nowhere 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. "The future will require us to build better places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to other people in other societies."

The Geography of Nowhere has become a touchstone work in the two decades since its initial publication, its incisive commentary giving language to the feeling of millions of Americans that our nation's suburban environments were ceasing to be credible human habitats. Since that time, the work has inspired city planners, architects, legislators, designers, and citizens everywhere.

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Timeless and Prescient

While JHK’s predictions for oil supply collapse has yet to occur, his analysis of what is wrong with the built environment in America remains spot on. This should be required reading for every planning student and city elected official.

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narrator. adds full stops. for no reason.

the book is great. the narrator has weird punctuation, stopping in the middle of a sentence for no reason. very irritating.

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Well-researched rant

Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” drawn out into a darkly funny rant about American civic development.

Narrator sounds like a bitter Rod Serling doing an infomercial. It was a strong choice and distracting. But ultimately added to the hilarity. An interesting story.

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The ugly result

A careful, painstakingly detailed log of our freeway to nowhere. Beautiful. More words are not required to compliment this labour of love.

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Would be much better as a documentary series

I liked the subject matter and the author did a great job; the research seemed very thorough and was presented in a way that was easy to follow. However a lot of the imagery would have benefited from concrete visuals to truly drive the authors point home in a way that manages to keep the listener engaged. TLDR: too lengthy for a listen.

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More timely than when written

The book tells the story of how we got to this wasteful ugly built environment and what we can do to improve it.

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Suburbia Jeremiad with poor narration

While this book was well researched, Kunstler does not take into account population growth since WW2. We can’t fit nearly 8 billion people into small towns. Still, it made me think about the cost of suburban neighborhoods, and made me a little depressed. The narrator sounded like he was merely pronouncing the individual words and not actually paying attention to the content, resulting in a choppy, disjointed, channel 5 news talking head style that was not pleasant to hear for 12 hours.

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Happy Car Armageddon

A realistc presentation of the sad and depressing state of America's aesthetic but read in the tone of a children's bedtime story. A gritty story read with a happy sounding voice diminished the severity of the circumstances we are in.

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Excellent whole view on why we develop our towns and cities so poorly

Very in-depth and Extremely well researched and explained. Narrator a little sing-song-y but okay. I wish there was more info on what one can do to change this trajectory of development but it gives great examples of who’s doing it right and well

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