Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about James Howard Kunstler

The Last Thing This Nation Needs

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 21, 2009 | 21 Comments

I hate to nitpick at an outstanding and historic speech but it’s January 21 and time to start talking about the stimulus bill, so, well, I’ll let James Howard Kunstler do the nitpicking… “We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars…” — Barack Obama’s inaugural address.“The last thing […]

Jim Kunstler on the Bail Out and What’s Next

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 29, 2008 | 9 Comments

Jim Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, has been predicting today’s financial catastrophe for a few years now so it’s no surprise that his blog is loading slowly this morning. The people want to know: What’s going to happen next? What the mainstream is truly missing here en masse is that another tsunami is building […]

Today’s McMansions, Tomorrow’s Tenements

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 22, 2008 | 19 Comments

This weekend’s must-read article is "The Next Slum?" by Christopher B. Leinberger in the Atlantic Monthly. He posits that the suburban American dream that was launched at the 1939 New York City World’s Fair appears to be running out of gas. Emerging in its place is the growing desire of many Americans to live in […]

Wall Street Journal Declares Peak Oil No Longer a “Fringe” Idea

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 19, 2007 | 12 Comments

Realizing that it’s generally considered passé if not altogether wacky to talk about New York City transportation policy and politics in the context of global energy business, a Wall Street Journal story this morning confirms that global fossil fuel production appears to be hitting a plateau. In other words, Peak Oil is no longer a […]

The Horror

By Jason Varone | Oct 31, 2007 | 5 Comments

Here is a horrifically entertaining way to kick off your Halloween day: James Howard Kunstler’s "Eyesore of the Month." October’s Eyesore is a drive-thru ATM machine in Caseyville, Illinois. Kunstler writes: The Ionic columns are a nice touch. What I like best is that only two of them are required to hold up the massive […]

Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on “Faulty Assumptions”

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 10, 2007 | 22 Comments

If you’re the type of person who has been following the Yankee Stadium parking garage story, or the Hudson Yards zoning story or the story about the city block in Prospect Heights that’s being leveled and turned into a gigantic surface parking lot, you may enjoy James Howard Kunstler’s column this week. The author of […]

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