The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,… — 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… — 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… — 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
No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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
A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could… — 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
I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We're not going to reform our moronic land-use laws, which mandate suburban sprawl one way or another. They're simply going to be… — 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