The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
 

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

by James Howard Kunstler

The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots.
In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the... (read more)

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