Links to Other Web Sites

Kunstler related sites
I published some short stories in Terrain Magazine, an online journal about the issues of place. They are amusing. "Manhattan Gothic", "A Christmas Orphan"  and "The Flight of Mehetabel." (They're also long. Pour yourself a drink and settle in.)

Sally Eckhoff's The Beastly Life.

New Urbanist Links
The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU).

Duany, Plater-Zyberk, Architects and Town Planners. Designers of Seaside, Kentlands, and other neo-traditional towns.

The Institute for Classical Architecture is reviving traditional building methods and manners so that we'll know what to do when the cheap oil fiesta is over and all those Modernist megastructures fail.

Visit J.H. Crawford's Car Free Cities.

A very important transit link:
National Association of Railroad Passenger's web site:

The Elm Street Writer's Group is run by the Michigan Land Use Institute. Lots of good essays by first-rate writers

Excellent essays on advanced mathmatics, chaos theory, and architecture by Nikos A. Salingaros, the editor of Christopher Alkexander's forthcoming magnum opus, The Order of Nature.

E-Design on-line provides a wealth of information on sustainable development.

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit: A Tour of the Once Mighty Motown.

An awesome traditional town planning firm, doing some of the best work in America: Dover and Kohl Town Planners.

Interesting new addition: a website dedicated to resurrecting classical land use patterns. Their current project is a Lecture Tour of Timeless Italian Villages in June.

Pedestrian and Bicycle Coalition of Chester County for pungent commentary on alt transport.

Peak Oil Sites
Energy Bulletin highly recommend daily digest of energy news.

Matt Savinar's Life After The Oil Crash

Another good daily round up Global Oil Watch

ODAC -- Oil Depletion Analysis Center

characteristically aloof analysis.

ASPO -- Association for the Study of Peak Oil. Group started by Colin Campbell and other elder statesmen geologists.

Bloomberg.com -- Lists market price-per-barrel of oil

Lawns to Gardens is the excellent blog of Portland, Oregon's, "Peak Oil Poster Boy," Randy Scott.

Financial

Mike Shedlock ("Mish") runs a consistently intelligent site: Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.

George Ure's Urban Survival Page is smart, breezy, and has a lot of personality.

The Prudent Bear is one of the best organized financial news pages. Check especially Doug Noland's column the Credit Bubble Bulletin.

The Daily Reckoning, Bill Bonner's excellent and characteristically aloof commentary.

Miscellaneous Sites

www.evolutionshift.com is David Houle's interesting "future look at today." Houle writes: "The name of the blog comes from that, and the premise that, in the next two decades, humanity might well have the opportunity to take the next major step in its evolutionary journey."

Norm Ezzie's StorminNorm site out of Cleveland, Ohio (Paris-on-the-Cuyahoga).

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