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What's Wrong with Suburbia?

Event Date

2008-01-17 12:00

Location

Engineering A 201

Description

You are invited to meet James Howard Kunstler, urban planning expert, author and journalist.

Students and faculty will be able to meet him and engage him in an informal Q&A. The session will be moderated by ISEEE Senior Fellow Michal Moore.

A free sandwich lunch will be provided

RSVP (for catering purposes) by no later than 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.16, to Melody Harris, ISEEE events coordinator, at: wenet@ucalgary.ca or phone: 210-9786.

About James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler's most recent book, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, expands on his past critiques of suburbia by exploring the sweeping economic, political and social changes that will result form the end of access to cheap fossil fuels and the impact this will have on the way we live, work, farm and build. Visit Kunstler's website: http://www.kunstler.com/

Presenter/Speaker

James Howard Kunstler, urban planning expert, author and journalist

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