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However, for Randal OTooles The Best-Laid. This book is a polemic by James Kunstler against all that he sees wrong with the modern American landscape in particular, the way that Americans have become. The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. Throughout my review of The Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler I gave assessments on many different issues. Geographers explore both the physical properties of Earth’s surface and the human societies spread across it. The leading national forum open to all for the impartial discussion of public issues important to the membership, community and nation. Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.

The geography of nowhere