American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands. — 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,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities… — 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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