Jane Holtz Kay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJane Holtz Kay
American author
Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1938
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 04-Nov-2012
Profession: author, non-fiction writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Jane Holtz Kay
- Jane Holtz Kay (born Jane Holtz; July 7, 1938, Boston – died November 4, 2012) was an American urban design and architecture critic.
- A columnist for The Nation, The Boston Globe and The New York Times, she authored three books on the conservation of natural and urban environments, most notably Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back. Kay grew up in the Boston suburb of Brookline with her younger sister, Ellen.
- After graduating from Buckingham School, she studied at Radcliffe College, majoring in American history.In 1960, she wrote her senior thesis on the historian and urban critic Lewis Mumford.
- His writings became a big influence on hers, and she visited him several times in the following decades.
- Kay began her career in journalism as a reporter for The Patriot Ledger, based in Quincy, Massachusetts, but later worked primarily as a freelance writer and author.Kay wrote columns for The Nation and The Boston Globe, and contributed several articles to The New York Times "design notebook" column.
- Her first book, Lost Boston, was published in 1980.
- It portrays buildings in Boston which had been demolished to build malls, roads or parking spaces.
- It was followed by Preserving New England (1986), which she had written with Pauline Chase Harrell.
- Her most influential book, however, is Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, a critique of the car's dominance on American culture published in 1997.
- In 1991, Kay had sold her car and moved to the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston.
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