Jane Holtz Kay

Jane Holtz Kay, an author, journalist and architecture critic for The Nation, has written widely on the built and natural environment. Her books include Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back, Preserving New England and Lost Boston.

A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, she has written for mainstream and professional organizations from Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, and Planning to The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Tompaine.com, Orion and Sierra.

A magna cum laude graduate from Harvard, Kay has recently completed her latest book, Last Chance Landscape: Taking the World in for Repair, a book on global warming, while continuing her regular commentary on urban and environmental issues surrounding land use, transportation, planning and preservation.

A frequent speaker, Kay has appeared on NPR's Living on Earth, Booknotes and other media while addressing national audiences, universities, and urban and conservation organizations, from the Sierra Club to the AAA, The Woods Hole Research Center to the Kennedy Library, the Conservation Law Foundation, Harvard Graduate School of Design, the American Planning Association and various activist, business,Êcommunity, and other environmental groups.

Her speaking fees range from $6500 to $10,000 depending on the nature of the event, plus transportation and expenses.

QUOTES on Jane Holtz Kay's work:

From Jane Jacobs' LIfe and Death of Great American Cities: "Jane Holtz Kay's book has given us a profound way of seeing the automobile's ruinous impact on American life. Asphalt Nation is terrific."

"...one of the best books ever on the subject," Richard Moe, President National Trust for Historic Preservation.