The Long Emergency Part 1

[bridgit]

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[pstans]

1. Kunstler is great

I have read 3 of his books and Geography of Nowhere is one of my all time favorites.

[bridgit]

2. i find him formative, ordered of thought...

and thanks, i'll look for: Geography of Nowhere :)

[pstans]

3. Gives the history of Suburbia

and links it to cheap oil and shows how it has resulted in a lack of culture and downgrade of community. It was a required reading for an Urban Geography class my Sophomore year in college.

[bridgit]

4. got'cha, in Hodgman's satire: The Areas of My Expertise, he tee's off...

on that theme further suggesting that suburbs were instituted so as to offer other drunk hobo' a place to be besides riding the rails in a state of perpetual drunkenness :spray:

your mention is the more serious = little boxes

Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky tacky.
Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and there's business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.