James Howard Kunstler says he wrote "The Geography of Nowhere," "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work." "Home From Nowhere" was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. His next book in the series, "The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition," is a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable) and, in particular, what America is going to do with its mutilated cities. His latest book, "The Long Emergency," is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st century."