http://silentspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/to-drill-or-not-to-drill/ Thoughts on life, history, politics and society Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:00:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://silentspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/to-drill-or-not-to-drill/#comment-1188 “Places not worth caring about” « Silent Speaking Thu, 28 May 2009 22:50:46 +0000 http://silentspeaking.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1188 [...] “Places not worth caring about” May 28, 2009 Posted by Joshua in Car Culture, Society/Culture, Suburbanization. trackback In a recent post, I mentioned the writer/social critic, James Howard Kunstler. Kunstler is probably one of the most intense critics of suburban sprawl in the United States. He has gone so far as to call it, “the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.” As a born and bred, former suburbanite myself, I share many of Kunstler’s critical views of suburbia and what he calls the “happy motoring fiesta” in the U.S., and have written a little bit on the topic on this blog in the past, mainly here and here.  [...] [...] “Places not worth caring about” May 28, 2009 Posted by Joshua in Car Culture, Society/Culture, Suburbanization. trackback In a recent post, I mentioned the writer/social critic, James Howard Kunstler. Kunstler is probably one of the most intense critics of suburban sprawl in the United States. He has gone so far as to call it, “the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.” As a born and bred, former suburbanite myself, I share many of Kunstler’s critical views of suburbia and what he calls the “happy motoring fiesta” in the U.S., and have written a little bit on the topic on this blog in the past, mainly here and here.  [...]

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