I ought to make this video a prerequisite for any patron who wants me to design a building. I've been doing some design work for urban projects lately, and I've never seen urban design explained better than in this 2004 talk by James Kunstler at the TED Conference for Technology Entertainment and Design. If I could choose only one thing anyone would ever learn or hear about architecture in today's America, it would be this talk. It's funny, it's pointed, it's patriotic, and i