Kunstler traces, from the nation's beginnings, the implications of changing architecture styles the manifestations of our extreme emphasis on private-property rights and low regard for the public realm and the destruction that our car-centered life has visited on American communities in general and certain profiled older towns and cities in particular. What novelist Kunstler (The Halloween Ball, 1987, etc.) does here is to explore and deplore these developments. It's no news that many Americans live in a spread-out, privatized suburban wasteland without community or centers that much landscape has given way to ugly sprawl that this condition may be due to systematic policies on the part of government and industrial forces and that the automobile is the engine that has driven us there.
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