V. B. Price

Vincent Barrett Price (born August 30, 1940) is an award-winning American environmental and human rights columnist, poet, editor, reporter, architecture critic, publisher, and professor at the University of New Mexico.

Quotes

• Like other emerging towns and cities in the American West and in the developing world, Albuquerque's vulnerability to mainstream cultural backwash and population flooding puts it on the list of endangered places. And because it is geographically set in the middle of a true natural wilderness—riverine, high desert plateau of central New Mexico—Albuquerque is particularly defenseless against the fast-paced flow of the mainstream world. The attraction of its emptiness seems as irresistible as gravity. Its image is not only that of an impoverished, charm-ridden hick town eager for tourist jobs and glitz, but its "wilderness" status makes it seem ripe for the picking, like certain portions of the Amazon basin or what used to be the deserted beaches of the Kaanapali Coast.
  • Albuquerque: City at the End of the World. University of New Mexico Press. 2003. p. 6. ISBN 9780826330970.  (1st edition 1992; 199 pages)

• There's little question, in my mind, that development in the West is digging its own grave. Societies, even technologically sophisticated ones, cannot grow and build against basic conditions of climate and landscape forever. Sooner or later the character of the land will catch up with them. Ancestral Puebloan migrations from Chacoan sites, forced usually by climate change as well as factional disputes and design miscalculations, make that clear.
  • "Chapter Twelve. Landscape and Survival: Thoughts on New Urbanism and Ancestral Puebloan/Pueblo Strategies for Designing Pragmatic Desert Built Environments by V. B. Price". Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest (pbk ed.). 2008. pp. 169–187.  (edited by V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow; 1st edition 2006; quote from p. 175)

• Tony Davis, an environmental writer for nearly thirty years, first broke the story that put an end to the myth of Albuquerque's inexhaustible aquifer. U.S. Geological Survey data showed that it was not the size of Lake Superior, but far smaller and more complex than suspected. His handling of the USGS report in the Albuquerque Tribune gave credibility to the need to create a water conservation program in the city. Davis now writes for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson.
  • The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project. University of New Mexico Press. 2011. p. 4. ISBN 9780826350497.  (362 pages)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on V. B. Price on Wikipedia