The Seaside Prize - James Howard Kunstler - THIS WEEKEND

[Seaside Events]

The Seaside Prize - 2009 Ceremony Weekend
Each year The Seaside Institute awards the Seaside Prize to individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to the quality and character of our communities.

The weekend begins with a private cocktail reception on Friday evening hosted by Ed and Cathy Toole of Dallas, TX. Their new home designed by Dallas based architect Larry E. Boerder showcases the latest innovative coastal design in our community. Saturday morning we will host a panel discussion with leading experts Robert Davis, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jim Kunstler and Steve Nygren to discuss the impact of the economic crisis on New Urbanism and Smart Growth. At 4pm, we will honor Mr. James Howard Kunstler's work in a ceremony followed by dinner at Bud & Alley's with renowned chef and 2007 James Beard Award winner, Chef Scott Peacock, of Atlanta, Georgia.

Tickets to the weekend's events, including the cocktail reception and the dinner at Bud & Alley's, are $250/person. For more information and to register for the weekend, please visit: www.theseasideinstitute.org.

 

[Jdarg]

I know there has been some confusion about the Kunstler events-
from the way we understand it, the morning discussion and the afternoon awarding of the Seaside Prize are open to the public and free of charge? And the $250 tix are for Friday night cocktails, and Saturday night dinner?

 

[Seaside Events]

Yes, you are absolutely correct. The discussion and awarding of The Seaside Prize are both free and open to the public. Those two events will be held in the Seaside Lyceum Meeting Room located next to the Seaside Neighborhood School on the second floor.

If you are interested in the cocktail party or the dinner by Chef Scot Peacock, please contact The Seaside Institute to reserve your space.

In addition, we have just added another great event as a part of the weekend's celebration. Kunstler will host a book signing at Sun Dog Books at 2:45 on Saturday, along with the authors from Views of Seaside.

 

[Jdarg]

Thanks- looking forward to this weekend!

 

[Camellia]

I want to encourage everyone to come and listen to Kunstler's provocative and frightening prognosis for our children's future in a country , and world, without a source of cheap fuel. His ideas transcend New Urbanism and architecture.

 

[scooterbug44]

If you could post a transcript or his article, that would be appreciated by those of us who can't make the lecture (already committed to Chataqua) but would like to hear what he has to say.

 

[bentley williams]

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James Howard Kunstler (born in 1948, New York City, New York) is an American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency (2005), where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in localized, agrarian communities. He has written a science fiction novel conjecturing such a culture in the future, World Made by Hand in 2008. He also gives lectures on topics related to suburbia, urban development, and the challenges of what he calls "the global oil predicament" and a resultant change in the ?American Way of Life.? He is also a leading proponent of "The New Urbanism" movement.

James Howard Kunstler

 

[bentley williams]

James Howard Kunstler: Biography and Photographs

James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work."
Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly.
His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with it's mutilated cities.
His latest book, The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century."
The Atlantic Monthly Press also published his novel, Maggie Darling, in 2004.
Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.
Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State Univerity of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields.
He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
He lives in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York

 

[Chickpea]

I cannot state enough how great this should be - Kunstler is an engaging speaker and both Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater Zyberk (DPZ masterplanned Seaside, Rosemary Beach, Draper Lake and Alys Beach in our neck of the woods) will be there as well. 3 pioneering minds in SoWal.

 

[Camellia]

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com