Occupation: Author Birth: October 19, 1948
It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect..
We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fo….
We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Sin….
The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually..
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible..
For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores..
Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideo….
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this as….
Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The….
The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things.
We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore beca….
I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it..
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated ….
Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country..
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, inc….
Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what….
Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter n….
We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economie….
In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic ….
Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of bus….
My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years or so the people who deliver all that cr….