Thu, 31 July 2008
Frederick Law Olmsted is most noted for designing Central Park in
Manhattan. His method of landscape design now serves as the main model
for how we design parks in America. But James Howard Kunstler believes
that our ongoing attempts to replicate the Olmsted park have created
many urban parks with serious shortcomings. Kunstler also warns
listeners not to ask for "green space" in their towns because "green
space" is an abstraction. Instead he urges people to learn the
vocabulary of landscape architecture to be able to ask for specific
park features.
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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy
James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency, and World Made By Hand, takes on the converging catastrophes of the 21st century. Features a new guest each month. (Note: Episodes 1 - 214 featured conversations between Duncan Crary and JHK during the years 2008 through 2012 and focused on the topics of suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era.)
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