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Nonfiction books by James Howard Kunstler

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

by James Howard Kunstler

Home from Nowhere:
Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century

by James Howard Kunstler

The City in Mind:
Notes on the Urban Condition

by James Howard Kunstler

The Long Emergency:
Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

by James Howard Kunstler

Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
by James Howard Kunstler

Novels by James Howard Kunstler

World Made by Hand:
A Novel

by James Howard Kunstler

The Witch of Hebron:
A World Made by Hand Novel

by James Howard Kunstler

A History of the Future:
A World Made By Hand Novel

by James Howard Kunstler

The Harrows of Spring:
A World Made by Hand Novel

by James Howard Kunstler

Books About Urbanism & Architecture

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs

The City in History:
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

by Lewis Mumford

The American Vitruvius:
An Architects’ Handbook of Civic Art

by Werner Hegemann and  Elbert Peets

The Experience of Place:
A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside

by Tony Hiss

From Bauhaus to Our House
by Tom Wolfe

The American Builder’s Companion:
Or A System Of Architecture, Particularly Adapted To The Present Style Of Building (1816)

by Asher Benjamin

A Pattern Language:
Towns, Buildings, Construction

by Christopher Alexander

The Architecture of Community
by Leon Krier

Suburban Nation:
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck

Twelve Lectures on Architecture: Algorithmic Sustainable Design
by Nikos A. Salingaros

Green Metropolis:
Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability

by David Owen

Pro Suburban Sprawl Books
(to make your head explode)

Bobos In Paradise:
The New Upper Class and How They Got There

by David Brooks

Sprawl:
A Compact History

by Robert Bruegmann

Books about Peak Oil & Collapse

“Is Oil Nearing a Production Crisis?”
Petroleum Week 2 (March 16, 1956), pp. 9-10.
quoting M. King Hubbert

Dark Age Ahead
by Jane Jacobs

Reinventing Collapse:
The Soviet Experience and American Prospects

by Dmitry Orlov

The Long Descent:
A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

by John Michael Greer

The Party’s Over:
Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

by Richard Heinberg

Peak Everything:
Waking Up to the Century of Declines

by Richard Heinberg

The End of Growth:Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
by Richard Heinberg

Books about Generational Cycles

The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
The Fourth Turning:An American Prophecy – What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
by William Strauss and Neil Howe

Other Books

H.L. Mencken: Prejudices:
The Complete Series
by H.L. Mencken

THE R.CRUMB HANDBOOK
by R. Crumb and Peter Poplanski

Hudson Valley Ruins:Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape
by Thomas Rinaldi and Robert J. Yasinsac

How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff and Irving Geis

Waiting for Godot (Eng rev):A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett

German Expressionist Movies
(Mentioned frequently by JHK)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene, Director

Metropolis
Fritz Lang, Director

The Golem
Carl Boese, Director

Songs

“My City Was Gone”
Learning to Crawl
The Pretenders

(Nothing But) Flowers
Talking Heads

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Book Cover: The KunstlerCast, by Duncan Crary (New Society Publishers, 2011) Paperback – 320 pages 6 Inches × 6 Inches (w × h) Weight: 261 Grams ISBN: 9780865716933

Book Cover: The KunstlerCast, by Duncan Crary (New Society Publishers, 2011) Paperback – 320 pages 6 Inches × 6 Inches (w × h) Weight: 261 Grams ISBN: 9780865716933

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REVIEWS

“This book is indeed great fun. … However, Crary’s superior volume has the guts to truly grapple with the harsh realities shaping our times—realities that few dare discuss out in the open.”

Frank Kaminski, Energy Bulletin, Feb. 12, 2012

“KunstlerCast is an easy read that you can dip into and out of at will”

Peter Bane, Permaculture Activist Magazine (.pdf), February 2012

“For those of you wanting a good overview of Kunstler’s thinking and for those of you that want to share JHK with others but may fear being embarrassed by the sometimes ‘salty’ language he can use, this book is a great tool. The format is, by design, conversational. You can digest it in small bites or in large pieces. And the Kunstler world through Duncan’s eyes is not necessarily sanitized, but it is communicated in a way that I think will reach a broader audience.”

Charles Marohn, Strong Towns, Jan. 25, 2012

“The 320-page New Society Publishers offering was just released in paperback and is based on four years of weekly Kunstler riffs recorded by podcasting journalist Duncan Crary. In his introduction to the book, Crary professes to be merely a host, and sometimes a Kunstler foil, but the two upstate New Yorkers really are kindred intellects.”

Ready to despair? ‘Doomer’ exhorts us to ‘grow up’, Jon Rutter Lancaster Sunday News, Nov. 12, 2011

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