Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“On my way out of [Atlantic City] at quarter after seven in the morning, a young pump jockey at the gas station [...] mentioned… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality. We're not… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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