EVENT INFO: 

Abbott Lowell Cummings Award Lecture

City of Wood: A Conversation with James Buckley

January 14, 12pm EST on Zoom

REGISTRATION LINK:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TewxZcpbQf-__KHatr39-A

SPEAKER BIOS:

James Michael Buckley is an urban planner and historian in San Francisco, CA. His book, City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (University of Texas, 2024) has been awarded the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award (Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2025), the J.B. Jackson Award (American Association of Geographers, 2025), and the John Brickerhoff Jackson Book Prize (UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes, 2025). Jim is a long-time member of the VAF and served as its President from 2021-2023. He taught in the urban planning programs at MIT and UC Berkeley and was the Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Oregon.