James Kunstler on Architecture, Sprawl and Cities
TED · Talk · 22 min · 2007 · YouTube title: James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
Why it's here
HN recommends it as an engaging introduction to the critique of car-centric design and bad architecture.
What it covers
James Howard Kunstler's TED talk argues that American public spaces and architecture have become unworthy of care, damaging civic life. He presents suburban sprawl and car-first design as failures of the common good.