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Advance Praise for the Kunstlercast Advance praise for The KunstlerCast ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION the KunstlerCast: conversations with James Howard Kunstler ...the tragic comedy of urban sprawl Duncan Crary ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Copyright © 2011 by Duncan Crary. All rights reserved. Cover design by Diane McIntosh. Art by Ken Avidor. Printed in Canada. First printing September 2011. Paperback isbn: 978-0-86571-693-3 eisbn: 978-1-55092- Inquiries regarding requests to reprint all or part of The KunstlerCast should be addressed to New Society Publishers at the address below. To order directly from the publishers, please call toll-free (North America) 1-800-567-6772, or order online at www.newsociety.com Any other inquiries can be directed by mail to: New Society Publishers P.O. Box 189, Gabriola Island, BC V0R 1X0, Canada (250) 247-9737 New Society Publishers’ mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manner that models this vision. We are committed to doing this not just through education, but through action. The interior pages of our bound books are printed on Forest Stewardship Council-registered acid-free paper that is 100% post-consumer recycled (100% old growth forest-free), processed chlorine free, and printed with vegetable-based, low-VOC inks, with covers produced using FSC-registered stock. New Society also works to reduce its carbon footprint, and purchases carbon offsets based on an annual audit to ensure a carbon neutral footprint. For further information, or to browse our full list of books and purchase securely, visit our website at: www.newsociety.com www.newsociety.com ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION For Grace and John Crary Special thanks to Eileen Sheehan, Roger Noyes, Philip Schwartz, Ian and Craig White, Peter Albrecht, Tom Reynolds, Ingrid Witvoet, Alison Bates, Jes Constantine, Ben McGrath, Matt Dellinger, Andrew Blechman, Wendy Anthony, the Congress for the New Urbanism and our listeners. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Contents Intro..................................... xiii Chapter 1: The Geography of Nowhere ....... 1 The Glossary of Nowhere .................... 1 The Human Habitat........................ 9 America’s Honeymoon with Cities is Over ......... 14 Mandating Suburbia ....................... 19 Children of the Burbs....................... 25 Sprawling to Obesity . 36 The Architecture of Suburbia.................. 41 Picturing Suburbia . 52 Sprawl Defenders . 58 The Politics of Place ........................ 66 Boomers: Back to the Burbs................... 71 Chapter 2: The End of Suburbia.............. 79 Charging Our Way to Suburbia . 79 The New Urbanism . 87 vii ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION viii The Kunstlercast Seaside ................................ 93 From Suburban Sprawl to Peak Oil .............. 104 Keep the Car Running?...................... 118 The Foreseeable Future...................... 122 Doomers ............................... 127 Retooling Suburbia . 136 Chapter 3: American culture ................ 141 Social Critic . 141 Throwaway Culture and the Plastic Fantastic ....... 149 Americans are Scary-Looking and Infantile ........ 151 Dude, We’ve Got Technology .................. 157 Chapter 4: Architecture . 165 The Starchitects . 165 Brutalism . 174 Chapter 5: Getting There . 185 Making Other Arrangements ................. 185 Reinvesting in Rail . 189 Water Transit . 194 Chapter 6: The City in Mind ................. 199 The Green Metropolis?...................... 199 Contracting Cities ......................... 210 ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Contents ix City by City ............................. 215 City Flybys .............................. 219 Small Cities and Towns...................... 226 Concentrating Poverty ...................... 233 Anti-Urban Bias . 241 Missing Teeth in the Urban Fabric .............. 244 A Drugstore on Every Corner ................. 253 Chapter 7: Urban Polemicists................ 257 Jane Jacobs .............................. 257 Lewis Mumford . 265 Chapter 8: Parting Words . 269 Packin’ for France . 269 Cassandra . 273 Legacy................................. 276 Outro .................................... 279 Notes .................................... 287 Index .................................... 293 About the Contributors..................... 297 ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION I lived in lies all my life, And I’ve been living here for a long, long time, I know it’s been coming down a while now. — John J McCauley III, Deer Tick “Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin)” There’s a passage in Moby-Dick those words, and little remains of where Herman Melville compares the “illimitable Pine Barrens” he two lone whaling ships crossing described on the outskirts of Albany. the Pacific to strangers crossing the But the place has become a new kind “illimitable Pine Barrens of New of wilderness that is equally inhos- York State.” If these travelers were pitable to this traveler. It is a terrain to encounter each other in such of parking lots, shopping malls, inhospitable wilds, he explains, it subdivisions and highways. It is a would be natural for them to give geography of nowhere that stretches “mutual salutation” and stop for a from the edge of my town to yours. while to interchange their news of But we will not be adrift here alone the world. In whaling argot, this is forever. called a “gam.” Kunstler will be here soon. And More than a century and a half when he arrives, we’ll have ourselves has passed since Melville wrote a gam. xi ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Intro James Howard Kunstler has been Like so many of my Generation called a lot of things. The world’s X, I was hatched on a cul-de-sac most outspoken critic of suburban in the American suburbs. As an sprawl. A caustic hero of New Urban- adolescent, I grew deeply dissatis- ism. A peak oil provocateur. Curmud- fied with that mode of living. It was geon. Jeremiah. Doomer. Dystopian. monotonous, ugly and isolating, Generalist. Social critic. Crank. and I was acting out along with my He usually just goes by Jim. peers in strange and bad ways. But it My first encounter with Jim was wasn’t until Geography that I acquired through The Geography of Nowhere, a the tools to be able to articulate the highly acclaimed, landmark polemic things I found profoundly wrong about the failures of suburbia. I was about the non-place of suburbia. nineteen when I discovered that Kunstler’s acid wit was a laxative to book, just a few years after its 1993 my constipated feelings about our publication. And I’ve been amusing, everyday surroundings. He seemed enlightening and pissing people off to put across, in a wickedly funny with what I found between its covers manner, all of the complaints and ever since. disappointments and frustrations xiii ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION xiv The Kunstlercast that had been a lump in my throat had done for hers. People across the for years. I knew suburbia sucked. nation were taking notice. What I lacked until I saw it in print By the time City hit the shelves was the vocabulary and framework in 2002, I was no longer a passive that JHK used to back up the senti- reader of Kunstler’s work. I was ment. I was never the same again. actually following in his footsteps. I Kunstler wrote other books had landed a dreary gig as a reporter addressing the subject, and I read covering the municipal meetings them, too. In Home From Nowhere he and so-called “quality of life” issues introduced me to the New Urbanism, in a suburb of Albany, New York. This a reformist movement of architects happened to be in the same town and planners working to create where Jim himself had toiled as a spaces you could actually give a reporter thirty years earlier, when damn about. In The City in Mind, his lens on suburbia had its first he dissected the urban organism real grinding. He left the area after with eight portraits of major world that for a stint at Rolling Stone and cities — some wonderful, some utterly a few other bohemian adventures, unsustainable. These follow-up titles but ultimately returned to settle in never garnered the same attention nearby Saratoga Springs, where he’s as the first, but they helped secure lived ever since. Luckily for me, that his place on the totem pole of urban made JHK a local source that I could thinkers. He was clearly doing for call upon for an occasional quote a new generation what Jane Jacobs about various sprawl-building efforts in my beat. And I took whatever ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Intro xv chance I got to insert his voice evil developers. He was shifting the into my reporting, planting little public consensus by getting us regu- Kunstler bombs to be delivered to lar folks to think about the places the doorsteps of suburbia by way of where we spend our lives. That’s how newsprint Trojan horse. (That’s how you reclaim the public realm. And I imagined it at the time.... I was it’s that empowering aspect of his twenty-three.) thought-sharing that I still find most I graduated to other papers, appealing. magazines and projects. But I In recent years, Kunstler’s gaze kept
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