The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-made Landscape Audiobook (Free)

In elegant and frequently hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation’s evolution in the Pilgrim settlements to the present day auto suburb in every its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies in the large economic, public, and religious costs that America is usually spending money on its car-crazed lifestyle. Additionally it is a wake-up call for residents to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build neighborhoods that are once more worthy of our passion. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover open public virtue and a fresh vision of the common good. ‘The future will require us to build better locations,’ Kunstler says, ‘or the near future will belong to other folks in other societies.’

The Geography of Nowhere has become a touchstone work in both decades since its initial publication, its incisive commentary giving language to the sensation of an incredible number of Americans our nation’s suburban environments were ceasing to be credible individual habitats. Since that time, the work provides inspired city organizers, architects, legislators, designers and citizens everywhere.