Jane Holtz Kay is an architecture/planning critic and writer on the built and natural environment. The author of Asphalt Nation, Preserving New England and Lost Boston, she is currently finishing her book on Global Warming for U-Cal. Press. Kay is the long time Architecture critic for The Nation and has written frequently for The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, the Christian Science Monitor, Planning, Sierra, Preservation, and Orion. Her chapters have appeared in A Livable City, The Good City, and elsewhere. She is currently writing a book on global warming, titled Last Chance Landscape, for the University of California with a Knight fellowship in renewable energy.

A Harvard magna cum laude graduate in history, Kay has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Boston University Journalism School and spoken on the built and natural environment, preservation and conservation, from cities and sprawl to transportation on such programs and platforms as "Living on Earth," "Booknotes," NPR, Peter Jennings and CNN, as well as in frequent lectures across the country.

Books and Chapters
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, April, 1997; University of California, paper, 1998
Preserving New England (Pantheon), 1986
Lost Boston (Houghton Mifflin), 1980; updated, 1999
Chapters and introductions from 1985-2003: WPA Guide to Massachusetts (Pantheon), intro; A Book for Boston, (Godine), chapter; Towards A Livable City (Milkweed), and The Good City (Beacon).

Articles: Regular Contributions
The Nation: architecture/planning critic; The Boston Globe: architecture, planning, transportation and urban criticism; Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Planning, reviews and articles; The New York Times: architecture criticism, editorials, books, Design Notebook column.

Other Articles and Reviews
Appalachia, Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Horticulture, In These Times, Ms., Orion Afield, Orion, Preservation, Progressive Populist, Sierra, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Urban Ecology and the webzines, Alternet, Tompaine, and Gristmagazine.

Awards, Grants, Boards
WalkBoston Golden Shoe Award, 2003; William H. Donaldson Editorial Achievement; Best American Essays of 2000, notable essay; National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), design arts fellowship; Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement; Boston Society of Landscape Architects award; Historic Neighborhoods Association, preservation award; American Association of University Women, media award. Editorial boards, Conservation Law Foundation and Urban Ecology.

Lectures
Simon Fraser, Vancouver; National Association of Olmsted Parks, Woods Hole Research Center, George Washington University; Greenprints, Atlanta; Northeast Solar Energy Association; Kennedy Library; Harvard Graduate School of Design; National Building Museum, Walker Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. Historical Society, AAA, Columbia University, etc.

Topics
"Asphalt Nation," "Last Chance Landscape, Conservation on a Threatened Planet," "Sprawl, the Automobile and Community Preservation," "Greenbuilding for a Sustainable Planet"

Media
C-Span: Booknotes-interview Brian Lam (1997 and 2000); National Public Radio (Living On Earth, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, etc.); ABC News (Peter Jennings); CNN

Teaching
Boston University, Communications: "Journalism and the Built and Natural Environment," 1980; Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; "Issues of Place: Community, Conflict and Architecture," 1985 - 87

Education
Harvard College, bachelor of arts in history, magna cum laude

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