Dystopian Author Quotes

James Howard Kunstler The skyscraper – any building over seven stories really – will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn’t work […]

James Howard Kunstler Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

James Howard Kunstler In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy […]

James Howard Kunstler Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

James Howard Kunstler We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main […]

James Howard Kunstler Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, […]

James Howard Kunstler People don’t like railroad tracks near them? We’ll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive […]

James Howard Kunstler In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

James Howard Kunstler The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.