About . . . Max Page

Max Page is associate professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst , and recipient of a 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999; winner of the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians), and 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). He is currently writing a history of how American culture has imagined New York ’s destruction, entitled The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York ’s Destruction (Yale University Press, 2006).