Landscape of Modernity

David Ward is chancellor and Andrew Hill Clark Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Poverty, Ethnicity, and the American City, 1840-1925. Olivier Zunz is professor of history at the University of Virginia and the author of Making America Corporate, 1870-1920.

First-class urban history. Journal of Historical Geography There is much in this collection to ponder, and the extensive notes and brief bibliography should lead the interested reader well beyond the essays. Because the changing urban landscapes in New York City and other cities still owes a great deal (for better or worse) to the decisions made and the buildings constructed in the first decades of the twentieth century there is much that is relevant today. New York History [The] attention to the complexity of urban development, the new research reported in most of the essays, and their typically interdisciplinary character, combined with the generous use of maps and photographs and the abundant cross-references within the articles, will make this a valuable collection of articles on New York City. Journal of American History The achievement of this volume is to provide exceedingly useful essays on selected topics and to pose broad questions about the formation of the modern urban landscape. Environment and Planning