The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country. — 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
We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — 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