Suburbia

Many moons ago, and by this I mean 11 or 12 years ago (I'm pretty sure 11), as a reporter I covered an author at Roger Williams University who spoke about the death of suburbia. The title of James Howard Kunstler's speech was something like, "Will Suburbia Survive?" and it was an enjoyable hour listening to this guy go off against strip malls, poor land use, and typical suburban development.

I recently read a piece by Kunstler (tough name to keep writing) that ran in the Washington Post and noticed that he was also on the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. The interview wasn't too exciting, but the Post piece was really good.

If you're interested about how the oil industry and numerous errors in suburban development will affect the future - or what Kunstler believes, anyway - check out this link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302456.html