Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: An Interview with Elizabeth Macaulay

Interviewed by Grace Gillies American world’s fairs at the turn of the twentieth century built visions of modernity and the future that were pointedly expressed through a language of the past. In Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at American World’s Fairs 1893-1915, Elizabeth Macaulay unpacks the context and subtext of Greco-Roman and Egyptianizing […]

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Topography and Poverty — A Review of “Urban Lowlands”

Moga, Steven T. Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Reviewed by Henry C. Binford This fine book weaves together several strands of United States urban history over the period from Reconstruction to the New Deal. Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning is an examination […]

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