The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots. In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. "The future will require us to build better places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to other people in other societies."

《无处不在的地理》追溯了美国从一个由主要街道和连贯的社区组成的国家演变为一个每个地方都不像任何地方的国家，城市是死亡地带，乡村是卡通建筑和停车场的荒地。康斯勒用优雅的、经常是搞笑的散文，描绘了我们国家从朝圣者定居点到现代汽车郊区的演变过程中的所有丑陋现象。《无处不在的地理》统计了美国为其疯狂的汽车生活方式所付出的巨大经济、社会和精神代价。它也为公民们敲响了警钟，以重塑我们生活和工作的地方，建立再次值得我们喜爱的社区。康斯特勒提出，通过恢复公民艺术和公民生活，我们将重新发现公共美德和对共同利益的新愿景。"未来将要求我们建设更好的地方，"Kunstler说，"否则未来将属于其他社会的其他人。"