An interview with ”Subdivided” filmmaker Dean Terry

PN: If the current state of things collapses, new urbanism gains favor and destinations aren’t spread out all over the map, do you see a great contracting taking place? Will people retreat to the urban areas?

DT: I don’t know. There’s different ideas about that. I’m not really an expert on how that would happen. That’s an economics question. I think you’d see them trying to make it so most of the things they do are much closer to each other. That’s the basic idea.

The extreme view is maybe James Howard Kunstler’s, who’s written a well-known book called The Long Emergency. His theory is basically energy prices are gonna get completely out of hand. Even if part of his idea is right it’s gonna get much harder and much more expensive to keep these places, and to drive, and all the energy costs.

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