The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape

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The Geography of Nowhere traces The usa’s evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where each and every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of caricature architecture and parking lots.
In elegant and steadily 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 religious costs that The usa is paying for its car-crazed way of life. It’s also a warning call for citizens to reinvent the places where we are living 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 be able to 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.”

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