KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century
James Howard Kunstler & Duncan Crary
James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere" and "The Long Emergency," takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.
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Feb 21, 2008 • 0sec
KunstlerCast #2: Small Cities & Towns
James Howard Kunstler describes the impending end of cheap oil, which he calls The Long Emergency. Suburbia is a living arrangement with no future. Things are going to get pretty gnarly in the big cities, too. But small cities, that exist at a scale that can be rebuilt, are the places of the future. (Info about program and theme music at KunstlerCast.com)Direct Download:
KunstlerCast_02.mp3
Feb 12, 2008 • 15min
KunstlerCast #1: Drugstores
James Howard Kunstler rips on drugstores: the one-story, junk food- dispensing boxes that masquerade as buildings on America's street corners.
Topics include: monocultural zoning; big retail vs. mom & pop; separating the business programming from the container that it comes in; and the destiny of these awful structures after the cheap oil fiesta is over.
(Info about program and theme music at KunstlerCast.com)Direct Download: KunstlerCast_01.mp3
