In elegant and frequently hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation’s evolution from your Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in every its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the large economic, public, and spiritual costs that America is definitely paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. Additionally it is a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the areas where we live and function, to build areas that are once again worth our love. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic lifestyle, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. ‘The potential will demand us to construct better areas,’ Kunstler says, ‘or the future will belong to other folks in various other societies.’

The Geography of Nowhere has turned into a touchstone work in both decades since its initial publication, its incisive commentary giving language to the feeling of millions of Americans our nation’s suburban environments were ceasing to be credible individual habitats. After that, the work has inspired city planners, architects, legislators, designers and people everywhere.