The Geography of nowhere

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1. cpursleyFeb 2024
   The solution to climate change and housing affordability are one and the same: dense human scale development patterns. In NA it requires a massive mental shift and zoning changes (or the oil to run out, which would force the issue).

   A book you might like: “The Geography Of Nowhere”

   https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/125313

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2. cpursleyNov 2023
   Yep, there’s a great book on this topic called “The Geography of Nowhere”. There’s a reason Disney designs things to feel like real places (that don’t exist in America anymore).
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3. justinzollarsSep 2023
   A book I recommend is the Geography of Nowhere. This book addresses the question, what makes an ideal community? Are they legal to build? and why is America so boxy? It also talks about planned communities, and some cities in America that work, like Savannah, and Portland.

   tldr. we were great at planning cities up until the 20's then the depression happened, then WW2 happened. These two events killed off anyone in America who could build a city, the car was invented, and then horrible urban sprawl happened.

   Great book.

   https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/geography-of-nowhere-the-rise-...

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4. cpursleyAug 2023
   It's the cause of so many issues in America (physical, mental, social). A great book on the utterly broken build environment in North America is "The Geography of Nowhere":

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_...

   Also, people forget - walkable doesn't just mean "somewhere you can walk" - I means you can walk to activities of daily living (groceries, pharmacy, gym, job, friends places, etc).

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5. ninethirtyOct 2022
   "Geography of Nowhere" by Kunstler and "Inside the Aquarium: The Making of a Top Soviet Spy" by Suvorov.
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6. UncleOxidantSep 2022
   > I do love the US but so many of our cities really are garbage.

   Indeed. The reason it feels so different in many European cities (and feels much better IMO) is that they are human scale instead of automobile scale.

   See James Howard Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_...

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