Author Description

University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, NYU; author, The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (New Press, 2002); New York Intellect (Knopf, l987), Toward an Urban Vision (U. Press of Kentucky, 1975); editor, Rethinking American History in a Global Age (U. of Calif. Press, 2002); co-editor, City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity (Transaction, 2001), Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1880-1930 (Russell Sage Fndn., 1994)