What Future for New Urbanism?

Tech billionaire Marc Lore hired starchitect Bjarke Ingels for a new urban design of a city that would be based upon community ownership of land. https://t.co/g8udDXhAzE

— Congress for the New Urbanism (@NewUrbanism) September 3, 2021

Kunstler comments on the value of new urbanism:

"The Covid-19 rush to suburbia surely seemed like a good idea at the time to people who could, all of a sudden, work from home, but of all the modes for occupying the terrain, suburbia really has the poorest prospects." https://t.co/E8RGbQfIY5

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) September 3, 2021

The days of its relevance are limited as many in the organization have gone woke.

Peak Personalities Episode 1

Launching my exclusive new series #PeakPersonalities, a "site within a site" where we interview the MOST interesting thought leaders and social iconoclasts of our time. Up first, my friend and prolific author and thinker @Jhkunstler. Enjoy the ride! https://t.co/C6E3agLFch pic.twitter.com/1YPcG4TgQ9

— Chris Martenson (@chrismartenson) June 4, 2021

James Howard Kunstler on the Great Reset

Podcast with The Long Emergency author Kunstler and his take on the Great Reset; seen as a vain, narcissistic attempt by elites to control forces; which are subject to more powerful processes that are playing out as the industrial economy inevitably contracts. https://t.co/PUMZYnhq0q

— Karen Goaman (@KGoaman) March 5, 2021

Kunstler on American Automobile Culture

"The landscape will eventually heal. Our towns will redevelop emergently as integral economic units, compact, dense with bustle, intelligently designed, assembled with care, and, very likely, beautiful." https://t.co/HY3iHrLIzf

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 24, 2020

Charles Marohn Reviews Living in the Long Emergency

I thought I had linked to this review when it was published over at Strong Towns, but apparently I didn't. The review was in the Sept/Oct issue of AmConMag and was made available on the AmConMag website today:

NEW, @clmarohn reviews James Howard Kunstler: The U.S. never really recovered from 2008. In fact, we're in the middle of a much bigger crisis than most people have realized. https://t.co/mOdNKUTSjX

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 15, 2020

Here is Kunstler with Marohn on the Strong Towns podcast.

#localism

Wealth in UK is very concentrated in the southeast. How do we make it less so? I discuss local banking, administration, politics, and money with @profstevekeen. https://t.co/kqpAPOBHR5

— Phil Dobbie (@phildobbie) October 6, 2020

Hear it in full at https://t.co/kyx7jhZ86v.profstevekeen or https://t.co/ucmOITQyRD

— Phil Dobbie (@phildobbie) October 6, 2020

Unfortunately Keen has joined the MMT bandwagon.

I can't recommend this podcast with @ProfSteveKeen enough:https://t.co/QXOwmOh4h2
If you want to learn some key MMT insights with some new wrinkles that don't get a lot of play, you can't go wrong with Steve, who is not an MMTer but to his great credit covers MMT most fairly.

— Bob Leore (@AylSud) October 6, 2020

And... James Howard Kunstler... Peak Prosperity

Jason Peters Reviews Living the Long Emergency

Adapt or Die: Kunstler's Guide to Living in the Long Emergency by Jason Peters | https://t.co/K6EXUOD96f pic.twitter.com/2pJnb8XG4J

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) October 2, 2020

Kunstler on the Decline of Big Cities (Part 2)

James Howard Kunstler today with the second half of his argument from last month on the decline of big cities. The suburbs are not immune from the same challenges, and are not an "escape" from urban problems. https://t.co/Ibl15oohSh

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) September 28, 2020

AmConMag

James Kunstler: Transportation as the Cause of the Crisis: Transportation as the Solution

Interviews with JHK

 

 

 

Priorities

Instead of continuously expanding our systems, we should have started investing in the resilience and productivity of existing structures a long time ago. https://t.co/gqShKTqzNd

— Strong Towns (@StrongTowns) August 31, 2020

"The pre-virus 21st century New York was a grandiose product of the financialization of the economy, including the global money-laundering orgy that incentivized the luxury condo tower building boom. That’s over." https://t.co/D58ITXaxPr

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) August 31, 2020

Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler on the Peak Prosperity Podcast

Peak Prosperity

James Howard Kunstler With Piero San Giorgio

Fragility and Collapse

AmConMag: A Foretaste of James Howard Kunstler’s Long Emergency by Addison Del Mastro

"The urgency of reopening the economy is real. But this is not an argument for reopening the economy; it is an argument for an economy that can be slowed down for a few weeks without going off the rails." https://t.co/7HyhEejaQp

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) June 3, 2020

People who didn’t think about the food system before the pandemic are realizing the vulnerabilities of the food supply supply chain - @DaniNierenberg @foodtank #FixingFoodNow https://t.co/GGmFiRCY8M

— BCFN Foundation (@BarillaCFN) June 3, 2020

Post-COVID-19: The Time to Fix the Global Food System is Now https://t.co/qCgsexoXDH

— BCFN Foundation (@BarillaCFN) June 3, 2020

In response to coronavirus & the climate crisis, we must change our food systems, stop overexploiting the natural world & move away from factory farming. 🌎

ASOA Scientific adviser shares lessons from the pandemic for farming 👇 https://t.co/3hQ5NfRa0f https://t.co/eAljmsfcRE

— Soil Association (@SoilAssociation) June 3, 2020

James Howard Kunstler Updates The Long Emergency

Kunstler's First Article as the New Urbanism Fellow for AmConMag

Where Will You Live in the Post Covid-19 Future?

The most neglected, disinvested places in America might be exactly the ones with a real future in the lean years ahead. https://t.co/ZsF5QxVy5R

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) May 15, 2020

Strong Towns Interview with James Howard Kunstler

Strong Towns: James Howard Kunstler: Living in the Long Emergency (Resilience)

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Edit.

We look to @Jhkunstler as one of our most trusted guides. Here he talks about the COVID-19 crisis, its impact on cities and suburbs, our broken supply lines, and how to live well in the long emergency. https://t.co/KO7XHP4F96

— Strong Towns (@StrongTowns) May 15, 2020

Another Kunstler Interview

Another Interview with JHK

The Time to Prepare for the Future Is Now

James Howard Kunstler: Where Will You Live in the Post Covid-19 Future?
Cities are cramped, sprawling suburbs are a dead end. That leaves two places well equipped for uncertain times.

The after-effects of the crisis will prompt enormous changes in our living arrangements, especially in matters relating to how we inhabit the landscape, recasting our ideas about what our towns and cities will look like, and will determine the fate of those vast, incoherent suburban outlands that are neither urban nor rural. You can check most of your prior assumptions about all that at the door now, especially schemes based on electric cars, “Green New Deals,” government largesse, and centralized power.