James Howard Kunstler Quotes About House
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We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.
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The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.
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Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.
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Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.
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