We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monet….

Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked ci….

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as "consumers." OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibi….

I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degradi….

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of ….

I urge people not to think in terms of "solutions," but in terms of intelligent responses to the quandaries and predicaments that we face. And there ….

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-s….

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke..

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow..

As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract….

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it..

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses..

[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of….

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship..

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The ca….

I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived.….

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction..

I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale….

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending..

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend..

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which i….