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James Howard Kunstler
Assignment — and checklist for paper
Reading, below. And a four-page paper (with 1.5 line spacing), described below.
Address three (3) separate critical issues that affect our world (in America) today, as presented
by Kunstler in The Geography of Nowhere.
Carefully select, read, and bring in to your discussion at least nine (9) contemporary
articles (three for each issue) that relate to your paper.
Reading
Kunstler, James Howard.The Geography of Nowhere:The Rise and
Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1993. [View on Amazon]
Additional reading and references by chapter.
Home From Nowhere:
How to Make our Cities and Town Liveable (here as a PDF file, too) was published in
The Atlantic Monthly,
September 1996. This article provides and overview of Kunstler's
proactive, constructive sequel to the Geography of Nowhere. In Home, Kunstler
places an emphasis on New Urbanism (as an example see the Congress for the New Urbanism). It is is valuable as a means of:
- understanding how preservationist must partnership with other
disciplines, and
- how the paradigm of preservation can apply directly to new
constuction and community design to expand the
purpose and relevancy of preservation, where preservation is more instrumental adn am means to a greater end goal..
Peruse Kunstler's web site, http://kunstler.com/ and blog, http://kunstler.com/blog/
Kunstler at RWU
19 February 1997, Can
We Survive Suburbia. School of Architecture's lecture series,
Roger Williams University
07 December 2005, The
Long Emergency and the End of Suburbia. School of Architecture,
Art & Historic Preservation Fall Lecture Series, Roger Williams
University.
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