Author James Howard Kunstler will speak at UNLV on April 13 about issues related to architecture, urban planning, and American society.

The lecture is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in the Paul B. Sogg School of Architecture Building, Room 127, and is open to the public.

Kunstler has described our contemporary American environment as a "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." In his first book on the subject, "The Geography of Nowhere," Kunstler gives his views on the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape. In his latest book, "Home from Nowhere," he "explores the growing movement across America to restore the physical dwelling place of our civilization."

Kunstler is the author of eight books and is a regular contributor to the "New York Times Sunday Magazine." He also has been a staff writer for "Rolling Stone Magazine" and has lectured at many universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and MIT.

For additional information, contact assistant architecture professor Jan Becker at 895-4244.