The City’s End

admin December 23rd, 2007

Max Page is Associate Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians, for the best book on architecture and urbanism. He writes for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development, and the politics of the past and is currently a columnist for Architecture magazine. He is also the co-editor (with Steven Conn) of Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), as well as the co-editor (with Randall Mason) of Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Routledge, 2003). For the hundredth anniversary of Times Square in 2004, he was curator for an exhibition on the history of the Square at the AXA Gallery in New York City. He is a recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship, Fulbright Award, and John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction was published by Yale University Press in September of 2008.

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