The End of Suburbia

1. Describe the history of suburbia and the forces that shaped it.

2. The video claims that the suburbs ended up having no amenities of the country or the city and the drawbacks of both. What do you that statement means?

3. Why is the future of suburbia in doubt?

4. In the video, energy investment banker Matthew Simmons says that future growth is not possible. What does he mean by this?

5. Why do we continue to ignore the problem of peak oil?

6. Why should we be concerned about peak oil? How will it affect our lives? Do you think some of the claims made by James Howard Kunstler (author of The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Manmade Landscape) are alarmist?