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Home Prices Drop Most in Areas with Long Commute (audio and text)
Kathleen Schalch, Morning Edition, NPR
Economists say home prices are nowhere near hitting bottom. But even in regions that have taken a beating, some neighborhoods remain practically unscathed. And a pattern is emerging as to which neighborhoods those are.
The ones with short commutes are faring better than places with long drives into the city. Some analysts see a pause in what has long been inexorable – urban sprawl.
(21 April 2008)
Urban Planning (audio)
James Howard Kunstler, KunstlerCast #9 via Global Public Media
James Howard Kunstler is one of the most vocal critics of modern urban planning. So it’s only fair that in this show Jim fields some questions from the professional planning community.
First off, the planners want to know how Jim answers to critics who challenge him on his lack of professional credentials in the planning and architecture fields.
Next, a planning professor wants to know: what is the most important thing that cities can do to most improve the quality of the built environment? This show is the result of a special collaboration between The KunstlerCast and Planetizen, the online network for professional planners.
(10 April 2008)
Children of the Burbs (audio)
James Howard Kunstler, KunstlerCast #10 via Global Public Media
Is raising children in suburbia a form of child abuse? What happens to developing people when public space is the berm between the Wal-Mart and the K-Mart? When school looks like a maximum security “facility”? When parents are chauffeurs? James Howard Kunstler addresses these topics and speaks of his own experiences growing up in the suburbs of Long Island and in Manhattan.
(17 April 2008)
Guest column by Kunstler just up at the Ottawa Citizen: Farewell to suburbia.
