--- title: "11 Building Quotes By James Howard Kunstler" description: "11 Building quotes by James Howard Kunstler. Plus more from James Howard Kunstler and more Building sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/james-howard-kunstler-2886_arrangements_our-building-practices-for-the-past-cent_923665.png" --- > [Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/our-building-practices-for-the-past-century-have-been-plain-stupid/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/james-howard-kunstler-2886_arrangements_our-building-practices-for-the-past-cent_923665.png) > [Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/two-decades-from-now-i-doubt-that-the-home-building-industry-so/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ac/james-howard-kunstler-2886_building_two-decades-from-now-i-doubt-that-the-ho_1229668.png) > [The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/the-increment-of-new-development-will-be-the-single-building-lot-if/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7e/james-howard-kunstler-2886_affordable_the-increment-of-new-development-will-be_1684255.png) > [The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/the-skyscraper-any-building-over-seven-stories-really-will-come-to-be/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/james-howard-kunstler-2886_building_the-skyscraper-any-building-over-seven-s_1983906.png) > [I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/i-m-very-optimistic-about-the-future-i-m-just-not-optimistic-about/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b1/james-howard-kunstler-2886_about_i-m-very-optimistic-about-the-future-i-m_1199192.png) > [Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/community-is-not-something-you-have-like-pizza-now-is-it-something/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd5/james-howard-kunstler-2886_building_community-is-not-something-you-have-like_2143583.jpg) > [Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/human-settlements-are-like-living-organisms-they-must-grow-and-they/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98e/james-howard-kunstler-2886_blocks_human-settlements-are-like-living-organi_1929953.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/we-re-living-in-a-culture-that-doesn-t-believe-in-decorating/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/466/james-howard-kunstler-2886_believe_we-re-living-in-a-culture-that-doesn-t-b_269488.jpg) > [Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/consider-how-badly-built-suburbia-is-many-business-buildings-are-not/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad5/james-howard-kunstler-2886_boards_consider-how-badly-built-suburbia-is-man_3038672.jpg) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/ever-busy-ever-building-ever-in-motion-ever-throwing-out-the-old-for/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/james-howard-kunstler-2886_about_ever-busy-ever-building-ever-in-motion-e_695077.jpg) > [Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/building-places-that-are-worth-living-in-and-worth-caring-about/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/239/james-howard-kunstler-2886_attention_building-places-that-are-worth-living-in_2812334.jpg) ## Other authors on Building ## More by James Howard Kunstler > [ The ideas of \[ Le Corbusier \] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/the-ideas-of-le-corbusier-that-actually-found-their-way-into-practice/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [ “On my way out of \[Atlantic City\] at quarter after seven in the morning, a young pump jockey at the gas station \[...\] mentioned… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/on-my-way-out-of-atlantic-city-at-quarter-after-seven-in-the-morning/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/ahead-now-i-think-you-ll-see-the-big-nations-shrink-back-into-their/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/the-task-we-face-is-reorganizing-the-systems-we-depend-on-for-daily/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/white-america-is-tortured-by-black-america-s-failure-to-thrive-and/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/what-we-face-is-a-comprehensive-contraction-of-our-activities-due-to/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/we-re-living-in-a-culture-that-doesn-t-believe-in-decorating/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/because-i-believe-a-lot-of-people-share-my-feelings-about-the-tragic/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/no-amount-or-combination-of-alternative-fuels-is-going-to-allow-us-to/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/everything-we-do-these-days-our-lust-for-ever-more-comfort-pleasure/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/there-s-a-lot-of-wishful-thinking-that-somehow-we-ll-replace-fossil/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/our-twenty-first-century-economy-may-focus-on-agriculture-not/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/i-think-that-obama-s-failure-to-reestablish-the-rule-of-law-in-money/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/i-m-not-against-kyoto-i-just-think-it-s-a-fantasy-especially/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) > [The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/the-american-house-has-been-tv-centered-for-three-generations-it-is/) [James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/building/james-howard-kunstler/#itemlist", "name": "11 Building Quotes By James Howard Kunstler", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Howard Kunstler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/our-building-practices-for-the-past-century-have-been-plain-stupid/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/james-howard-kunstler-2886_arrangements_our-building-practices-for-the-past-cent_923665.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/james-howard-kunstler-2886_arrangements_our-building-practices-for-the-past-cent_923665.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/james-howard-kunstler-2886_arrangements_our-building-practices-for-the-past-cent_923665.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - 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