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A classic TED talk and some classic J. H. Kunstler. Most interesting is how, despite his spot-on takedown of postwar urban planning, his dire predictions of hav
by mortenjorck 12y ago
A classic TED talk and some classic J. H. Kunstler. Most interesting is how, despite his spot-on takedown of postwar urban planning, his dire predictions of having to adapt the suburbs to a post-oil world have been completely upended by the shale oil economy of the past decade. The suburbs got a stay of execution thanks to fracking, and the economic pressure to reform our living spaces has been relieved for now.