I’m glad that the Twentieth Century is coming to an end.These malls and things represent a physical residue of debt, and the rearrangement of hallucinated "money" undergoing steady corrosion through friction and entropy as the debt behind it is leveraged, traded, collateralized, commodified, abstracted, fucked around with, and finally defaulted upon.  Anyway, I’m glad that the Twentieth century is over. It’s possible that the 21st will be an improvement -- just as I believe (perhaps foolishly), that the Nineteenth was generally a good one, a real corker (and don’t let’s get started about the Battle of Cold Harbor, etc.). Let’s just bid the Twentieth a gingerly farewell, as we would say goodbye to a vexing and malicious parent at the cemetery as the casket slides into the receiving vault of eternity.Farewell to the Twentieth Centuryby James Howard Kunstlerhttp://www.kunstler.com/mags_farewell.html by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck-----There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from an awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver's licenses; commuters, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day; the urban poor, isolated in deteriorating cities without access to jobs or services. Suburban NationThe Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Book on CD -- FINE ART PRINTS - Services -- WIN FREE PRINTS -- Acknowledgments -- Thank You from A.A.V.E. -- Photographic Prints -- Wedding Photography Services -- Photographers Copyrights -- Image Hijacking --

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