Description
Book SynopsisThis work 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 they live and work and to build communities that are once again worthy of their affection.
Trade ReviewRobert Taylor
Boston Globe A wonderfully entertaining useful and provocative account of the American environment by the auto, suburban developers, purblind zoning and corporate pirates.
Bill McKibben author of
The End of Nature A Funny, Angry, Colossally Important Tour of Our Built Landscape, Our Human Ecology.
The New Yorker A serious attempt to point out ways future builders can avoid the errors that have marred the American landscape.
James G. Garrison
The Christian Science Monitor Contributes to a discussion our society must hold if we are to shape our world as it continues to change at a dizzying pace.
Michiko Kakutani
The New York Times Provocative and entertaining.
Table of ContentsCONTENTSChapter
One
SCARY PLACESTwo
AMERICAN SPACEThree
LIFE ON THE GRIDIRONFour
EDEN UPDATEDFive
YESTERDAY'S TOMORROWSix
JOYRIDESeven
THE EVIL EMPIREEight
HOW TO MESS UP A TOWNNine
A PLACE CALLED HOMETen
THE LOSS OF COMMUNITYEleven
THREE CITIESTwelve
CAPITALS OF UNREALITYThirteen
BETTER PLACES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
