Book interviews tagged New York City

Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4077 1 hb
- featured in: Smart government can create decent social housingMay 18, 2009

The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0816656042
- featured in: Historic preservation is a fundamental part of every modern cityJuly 20, 2009

Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico
- ISBN: 978 0816655885
- featured in: A cultural history of a departure from conventional political and national formsSeptember 13, 2009

Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York
- ISBN: 978 0812241600
- featured in: Market booms, whether in the 1740s or in the 1990s, are largely imaginaryOctober 2, 2009

Follow the Money: Who Controls New York City Mayors?
- ISBN: 978 1438425320
- featured in: I examine each New York City mayor since the Great Depression who faced fiscal difficultiesOctober 21, 2009

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
- ISBN: 978 0231145664
- featured in: Bertolucci called us a kind of wild cinema universityNovember 27, 2009

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
- ISBN: 978 0195382853
- featured in: Can we consume the city without destroying it?December 16, 2009

The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google
- ISBN: 978 1584658030
- featured in: Media affect the nature of experience in and the physical layout of citiesMarch 8, 2010

Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years
- ISBN: 978 0 307 27344 4
- featured in: A story that Mark Twain was determined no one would ever tellMarch 15, 2010

The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City
- ISBN: 978 0300137064
- featured in: Art and the Changing Texture of Urban Life
April 5, 2010