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James Howard Kunstler (born October 19, 1948) 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, ''The Long Emergency'' (2005) and most recently, ''Too Much Magic'' (2012). In ''The Long Emergency'', 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 smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. Starting with ''World Made by Hand'' in 2008, Kunstler has written a series of science fiction novels conjecturing such a culture in the future. Kunstler 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 has lectured the TED Conference, the American Institute of Architects, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the National Association of Science and Technology, as well as at numerous colleges and universities, including Yale, MIT, Harvard, Cornell, University of Illinois, DePaul, Texas A & M, West Point, and Rutgers University. As a journalist, Kunstler continues to write for ''The Atlantic Monthly'', Slate.com, ''RollingStone'', ''The New York Times'' ''Sunday Magazine'', and the Op-Ed page where he often covers environmental and economic issues. Kunstler is also a leading supporter of the movement known as "New Urbanism." ==Background== Kunstler was born in New York City to Jewish parents, who divorced when he was eight. His family then moved to the suburbs in Long Island. His father was a middleman in the diamond trade.〔 Kunstler spent most of his childhood with his mother and stepfather, a publicist for Broadway shows.〔 While spending summers at a boys' camp in New Hampshire, he became acquainted with the small town ethos that would later permeate many of his works. In 1966, he graduated from New York City's High School of Music & Art, and attended the State University of New York at Brockport, where he majored in Theater. After college, Kunstler worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for ''Rolling Stone''. In 1975, he began writing books and lecturing full-time. 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 Washington County, New York, and was formerly married to the children's author Jennifer Armstrong. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Howard Kunstler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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