It’s a particular human quality to react to disaster rather than take action to avoid it. The environmental crisis of climate change, a very real threat to the existence of the human species, is hardly near the top of any list of actions we humans and our governments take.
But as that climate crisis gets more […]

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James Kunstler, in his book The Geography of Nowhere, makes a brilliant summation of the blunt force trauma Modernism (and Postmodernism, etc.) inflicted upon us:
Modernism did its immense damage in these ways: by divorcing the practice of building from the history and traditional meanings f building; by promoting a species of urbanism that destroyed age-old […]

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