Designing San Francisco: Art, Land and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Catherine Zandonella

Author: Alison Isenberg, professor of history Publisher: Princeton University Press, September 2017 Designing San Francisco is the previously untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions Continue Reading →

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

Posted on November 15, 2016 by

Author: Mitchell Duneier, Princeton Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016 On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in a closed Continue Reading →

Race for profits

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Catherine Zandonella

Research on the 1970s urban housing crisis exposes a familiar history By Catherine Zandonella PREDATORY LENDERS. Subprime and no-doc loans. Mortgage-backed securities. Mass foreclosures that disproportionately impacted minority homeowners. Sound like 2008? It was 1972. Continue Reading →

First Princeton-Fung Global Forum held in Shanghai

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Catherine Zandonella

Architects, engineers and other scholars gathered in February in Shanghai for the inaugural Princeton-Fung Global Forum to discuss population growth, social trends, climate change and other factors determining “The Future of the City.” A $10 Continue Reading →

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