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The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Free Press
July 1994
304 pages
ISBN: 0671888250
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution
from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a
land where every place is like no place in particular, where
the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland
of cartoon architecture and parking lots. In elegant
and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's
evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto
suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of
Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and
spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed
lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to
reinvent the places where we live and work, to build
communities that are once again worthy of our affection.
Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life,
we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the
common good. "The future will require us to build better
places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to
other people in other societies."
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