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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.
James Howard Kunstler
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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.
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Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.
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America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
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It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.
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