| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Robert M. Fogelson. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 492. $35.00.

Robert M. Fogelson opened his distinguished career as an urban historian with The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850–1930 (1967), a story of decentralization and suburbanization. A third of a century later, he has come full circle with this very good book about the downtowns of big cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, and—yes—Los Angeles. 1

Fogelson's book is a history of public policy and planning drawn from the published record. The author bases his analysis on the writings of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century business leaders, real estate professionals, highway engineers, architects, urban reformers, and city politicians. The footnotes bristle with references to metropolitan newspapers, local planning reports, and trade journals such as Electric Railway Journal, Brickbuilder, National Municipal Review, and Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He supplements this dense reading of contemporary discourse with examples drawn from the large secondary literature on urban growth and planning. At the same time, his downtown perspective offers new ways to think about such standard urban history topics as transportation policy, land use planning, the rise of the skyscraper, housing reform, and urban redevelopment. . . .

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