Max Page is the Graduate Program Director and Professor of Architecture and History
at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he teaches urban, architectural, and
public history. 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
popular uses of history. He is also the co-editor (with Steven Conn) of Building the
Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), as well as the co-editor (with Randall Mason)
of Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
(Routledge, 2003). He is a recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship.
