Max Page

Max Page is Assistant 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 from the Society of Architectural Historians. He writes for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development and the popular uses of history. He is currently editing Constructing America: American Writings on Architecture, Urbanism, and Place, 1789 to the Present (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), a documentary history of American architecture, as well as Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Routledge, 2003), a collection of scholarly essays on the history of the historic preservation movement.