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Dispatch -- Urban Design and Civil Protest, Places (2008)

Designing for God: The Reemergence of Tradition at the new Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, Cite (2008)

The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction (2008)

The Urban Ear: Sounds of the City, New York Times (2007)

Sprawled Out, Architecture (2006)

Shifting the Memorial Paradigm, Architecture (2006)

The Preservation Act at 40, Architecture (2006)

Crashing to Earth, Again and Again, New York Times (2006)

The Kindness of Strangers: Rebuilding New Orleans, Architecture (2005)

Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America, Journal of American History (2005)

Germany’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Architecture (2005)

Careful Urban Renewal Twenty-Five Years Later: How the International Building Exhibition Berlin Has Stood the Test of Time, Metropolis (2005)

The Heights and Depths of Urbanism : Fifth Avenue and the Creative Destruction of Manhattan, The American Skyscraper : Cultural Histories (2005)

New Architecture in Berlin, Architecture (2004)

The Otis Elevator: The ‘Hoisting Apparatus’ That Changed America, Hartford Courant (2004)

The City's End: Past and Present Narratives of New York's Destruction, The Resilient City: Trauma, Recovery, Remembrance (2004)

The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster, Journal of Planning History (2003)

Education By Design: New Architecture at the Five Colleges, Architecture (2003)

Minuteman Athletics Logo Makeover Reveals Skewed Priorities at UMass, Worcester Telegram and Gazette (2003)

Boxed In: The Galante Architecture Studio’s Falmouth, MA Recreation Center, Architecture (2003)

River of Innovation: Returning to the Tradition of Contemporary Architecture on the Charles River, Architecture Boston (2003)

The Future of the Past: New York History after 9/11, New-York Journal of American History (2003)

Takin’ It To the Streets: The Geography of Public Protest, Architecture Boston (2003)

Trent Lott and the Color Line, Valley Advocate (2003)

Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape, 1789 to the Present (2003)

Giving Preservation a History: Essays on the History of Historic Preservation in the United States (2003)

Opportunity Lost? Rethinking the Rebuilding of New York, Philadelphia Inquirer (2002)

Step Back from Ground Zero, Christian Science Monitor (2002)

Speaking the Truth about Welfare into a Political Void, Valley Advocate (2002)

Measuring the Value of Lives: A Critique of the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund, Christian Science Monitor (2002)

Creatively Destroying New York: Fantasies, Premonitions, and Realities in the Provisional City, Out of Ground Zero (2002)

On Edge, Again: Fear in New York after September 11, The New York Times (2001)

Comment on James Cohen, 'Abandoned Housing: Implications for Urban Policy and Local Planning, Housing Policy Debate (2001)

Private Tragedies and Public Life: Privatization after September 11, Valley Advocate (2001)

The City That Workers Built, Reviews in American History (2001)

Unimaginable: Precursors to September 11, History News Service (2001)

The Gerrymandered Lower East Side Historic District, New York Daily News (2001)

Rage is Right: Renewing the Democratic Party, The Politic (2001)

Unkind Legacy: The History of George W. Bush’s Presidency, Philadelphia City Paper (2001)

Radical Public History in the City, Radical History Review (2001)

Preservation Blues: The Destruction of Maxwell Street in Chicago, Christian Science Monitor (2000)

Chicago’s Maxwell Street: A Crucible of Cultures, City Sites (2000)

Voter Cleansing: The Votes We Traded to Get Clean Machines, Los Angeles Times (2000)

A Concession Speech for George W. Bush, Yale Daily News (2000)

Whither National Health Care? Simple and Profound Lessons from Great Britain, New York Daily News (2000)

Redlined: All the News That’s Fit to Deliver, All the People Fit for Delivery, Philadelphia City Paper (2000)

Crucibles of Culture: Artists Thrive in Big Cities for a Reason, Los Angeles Times (2000)

Home with Dad on International Women’s Day, New York Daily News (2000)

From 'Miserable Dens' to the 'Marble Monster': Historical Memory and the Design of Courthouses in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1999)

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan (1999)

Wal-Mart's British Invasion, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1999)

Four Ways of Looking at City-Building in America, Journal of Urban History (1999)

Uses of the Axe': Street Trees and the Meaning of Nature in New York, American Studies (1999)

A Vanished City is Restored’: Inventing and Displaying the Past at the Museum of the City of New York, Winterthur Portfolio (1999)

Reading the Reading Room: The Life of the Mind in the New British Library, Preservation (1999)

The Life and Death of a Document: Lessons from the Strange Career of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Public Historian (1999)

What Have We Learned: Views from the End of a Semester, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1998)

Chopstick Ruminations: Lessons about the Global Economy, Philadelphia Inquirer (1998)

The ‘City Too Busy to Hate’?: Forgetting the History of Segregation in Atlanta, Creative Loafing (1998)

Turn to Berlin: German Capital Can Teach Atlanta How to Handle Success, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1998)

A Block of History, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1997)

The One Less Traveled By‛: an Ode to MARTA, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1997)

Letter from Berlin: Hardly a True Memory, The Forward (1997)

Welcome Back, King Kong, Boston Globe (1995)

Skyscrapers: The Politics of Corporate Architecture, Invisible America (1995)

Learning from the Trenches: Lessons from New York’s Homeless Shelters, Reforum: A City Journal for Social Change (1994)

The Mists of Todos Santos, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (1994)

Yale's Old Brick Row: The Struggle for a Campus, New Haven Colony Historical Society Journal (1989)

How to Stop the Uglification of America, The New York Times (1987)