Books by the Banks

	Peter Seidel
	2045: a novel of the future
	fiction, 2009
BIO - Peter Seidel BORN: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December l926. EDUCATION USN Electronics Tech. School; U. of Wis.; U. of Colo., BS Arch. Engineering `49; Ill. Inst. of Technology, MS Arch. `53 (student of architect Mies van der Rohe and planner L. Hilberseimer). MISC. EMPLOYMENT: farmhand; factory worker; Alaska salmon fisherman; carpenter. PROF. EMPLOYMENT: worked for architects in Milwaukee and Chicago including Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; The U. of Munich Architectural Office, Munich, Ger.; The City Planning Office of Frankfurt, Ger.; Clermont Industrial Parks, Cincinnati (head planner, new town); private practice in architecture and planning, Milwaukee, Ann Arbor, & Cincinnati.; consulting, Cinc.; condominium planning, development, & construction, Cinc. TEACHING: Architecture & Planning at: Va. Polytechnic Institute; U. of Michigan; Miami U., OH; and Central China U. of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China; Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai, India. GRANTS: U. of Mich. Horace R. Rackham Faculty Research Grant; The Kettering Fund; The Cincinnati Chapter of the Audubon Society. TELEVISION: Misc. interviews; One-hour documentary, U. of Mich., Peter Seidel's Model City; Pre-production planning for one-hour documentary, “Invisible Walls.” Internationally. recognized scholars agreed to advise or appear on camera, script completed, both writer and director had received Emmys for documentaries. Adequate production funding not obtained. PUBLICATIONS: Articles in Milwaukee & Cincinnati newspapers; Technology & Human Affairs; Housing; Inland Architect; Commercial Investment Journal; World Futures; The Futurist; Futures; New Living; Indian Journal of Applied Economics, Bangalore, India; VPI Bulletin, Central Linear City; book, Invisible Walls: Why We Ignore the Damage We Inflict on the Planet … and Ourselves, 1998, Prometheus Books; Guest Editor of special double issue of World Futures on Survival Research, April-June, 2003. Coeditor with Ervin Laszlo, Global Survival:The Challenge and Its Implications for Thinking and Acting, 2006, SelectBooks. CIVIC ACTIVITIES: Mayor’s Advisory committee, Milwaukee; Mass Transit Policy Committee, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Planning Authority; Cincinnati; Cofounder, Ecotech Foundation, 1972; organizer of proposed ecologically sound community of 40 homes, 1972; Mayor's Energy Task Force, Cincinnati; mentor Cinc. Pub. Schools., Environmental Advisory Committee, City of Cincinnati TRAVEL: North & Central America, Europe, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Mali, India, Nepal, Thailand, China and Japan; partly by hitchhiking, bicycle, canoe, foot, and ski.