--"Palo Alto Daily News". 86 photos. "A classic of urban history, environmental history, California history, and socially oriented architectural criticism, this work contains scholarship that is thrilling in its comprehensiveness.
The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present.
Kunstler traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a nationof main streets to a world reshaped by the automobile, and explains how developers deliberately replace community with consumerism, creating a man-made landscape ...