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The Once and Future City |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Lloyd Eby |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 3,019 Words, 18,839 Characters |
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THE CITY IN MIND
Notes on the Urban Condition
James Howard Kunstler
New York: Free Press, 2001
304 pp., $25.00
Four decades ago, in her seminal book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs declared that "whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been the core of the phenomenon. ... Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social problems travel together. The combination is not coincidental." Many commentators consider Jacobs' book to be, as one says, "the definitive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed." Another says, "It is widely known for its incisive treatment of t...
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... private transportation must give way to public transit is nowhere near proved, nor is it at all clear that an alternative to gasoline will even be needed, much less unavailable.
Kunstler's opinions and observations warrant our attention but not our uncritical acceptance. Besides, some thoughtful people actually prefer modernism to classicism, for perfectly respectable aesthetic reasons.
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