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James Howard Kunstler (b. 1948) is an American author and social critic.
Kunstler has been a consistent critic of suburbia, urban development trends throughout the US and the "American Way of Life", and has been a leading proponent of the New Urbanism movement. He has summed up his attitude towards the current American lanscape by describing it as: "The tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. A land full of places that are not worth caring about will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending."
He has authored several influential books on the subject of urban design and planning including The Geography of Nowhere, Home From Nowhere and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition. He has also authored several novels.
James Howard Kunstler was born in New York City. He graduated from the State University of New York. After college, he worked as a reporter and feature writer, and in 1975 began writing books and lecturing full-time. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York and was formerly married to the childrens author Jennifer Armstrong.
More recently, he has writen about the effects that he believes a future oil peak will have on American society, and as such he appears in the documentary film The End of Suburbia.
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