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- catalog abstract ""In Home from Nowhere Kunstler explores the growing movement across America to restore the physical dwelling place of our civilization. Picking up where The Geography of Nowhere left off, Kunstler describes precisely how the American Dream of a little cottage in a natural landscape mutated into today's sprawling automobile suburb in all its ghastliness, and why "we are going to run shrieking from it to a better world." He locates in our national psychology the origin of Americans' traditional dislike for city life, and what this implies about our ability to get along with one another." "Most important, Home from Nowhere offers real hope for a nation yearning to live in authentic places worth caring about. Kunstler calls for a wholehearted restoration of traditional architecture and town planning based on enduring principles of design. He declares that the public realm matters, and that it must be honored and embellished in order to make civic life possible. He argues that the idea of beauty must be readmitted to intellectual respectability." "From Seaside on the Florida panhandle, a bold experiment to create a radically better form of land development, to the reclamation of inner city neighborhoods, Kunstler documents the movement to revive American communities and a shared sense of place - presenting the crisis of our landscape and townscape that is at the center of the debate about this nation's future."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9756992.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""In Home from Nowhere Kunstler explores the growing movement across America to restore the physical dwelling place of our civilization. Picking up where The Geography of Nowhere left off, Kunstler describes precisely how the American Dream of a little cottage in a natural landscape mutated into today's sprawling automobile suburb in all its ghastliness, and why "we are going to run shrieking from it to a better world." He locates in our national psychology the origin of Americans' traditional dislike for city life, and what this implies about our ability to get along with one another." "Most important, Home from Nowhere offers real hope for a nation yearning to live in authentic places worth caring about. Kunstler calls for a wholehearted restoration of traditional architecture and town planning based on enduring principles of design. He declares that the public realm matters, and that it must be honored and embellished in order to make civic life possible. He argues that the idea of beauty must be readmitted to intellectual respectability." "From Seaside on the Florida panhandle, a bold experiment to create a radically better form of land development, to the reclamation of inner city neighborhoods, Kunstler documents the movement to revive American communities and a shared sense of place - presenting the crisis of our landscape and townscape that is at the center of the debate about this nation's future."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Victory disease -- Who we are -- Public realm and the common good -- Car crazy -- Charm -- Creating someplace -- Beyond seaside -- A mercifully brief chapter on a frightening, tedious, but important subject -- Remodeling hell -- A city in the country -- Farmer -- My hometown, a reconsideration -- Coda: what I live for.".
- catalog extent "318 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Home from nowhere.".
- catalog identifier "0684811960".
- catalog identifier "0684837374 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Home from nowhere.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Home from nowhere.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "307.1/2 20".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States Aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "Architecture and society United States.".
- catalog subject "City planning United States.".
- catalog subject "HT167 .K85 1996".
- catalog subject "Quality of life United States.".
- catalog subject "Urban beautification United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Victory disease -- Who we are -- Public realm and the common good -- Car crazy -- Charm -- Creating someplace -- Beyond seaside -- A mercifully brief chapter on a frightening, tedious, but important subject -- Remodeling hell -- A city in the country -- Farmer -- My hometown, a reconsideration -- Coda: what I live for.".
- catalog title "Home from nowhere : remaking our everyday world for the twenty-first century / James Howard Kunstler.".
- catalog type "text".