James Howard Kunstler

Americans, given the choice between civilizing their cities thorugh public works, and using the car to escape the demands of civility, chose the car.

If anything, there appears to be an inverse relationship between our growing obsession with the home as a totem object and the disintegration of families that has become the chief social phenomenon of...

The idea of a modest dwelling all our own, isolated from the problems of other people, has been our reigning metaphor of the good life for a long time. It must now be seen for what it really is: an an...