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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
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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.”
“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.”
“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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