| EDUCATION |
| 1987-92 |
PhD, History of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1980-84 |
A.B. Architecture, University of California, Berkeley |
|
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND APPOINTMENTS |
| 2008- |
Professor, Department of History, UNLV |
| 1998-2008 |
Associate Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development (SPPD), University of Southern California (USC)
Joint appointments, Departments of History and of Geography
Affiliate, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity (PASE) |
| 1992-98 |
Assistant Professor, School of Urban Planning and Development, USC |
| AFFILIATIONS WITH RESEARCH CENTERS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS |
| 2005- |
Research Associate in History, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |
| 2001-02 |
Senior Fellow, Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA), Rutgers University |
| 1997-98 |
Visiting Associate, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech |
| 1996-97 |
Visiting Scholar, Department of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles |
| AWARDS |
| 2002 |
Donald Pflueger Book Award, Historical Society of Southern California (for Magnetic Los Angeles) |
| 2001 |
SPPD Professor of the Year (undergraduate program) |
| 1998 |
Spiro Kostof Book Prize for Architecture and Urbanism, Society of Architectural Historians (for Magnetic Los Angeles) |
| 1993 |
John Reps Prize, Society for American City and Regional Planning History (best dissertation, 1991-93) |
| FELLOWSHIPS |
| 2007 |
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, The Huntington Library |
| 2001 |
Research Fellow, USC Lusk Center |
| 1999 |
John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library |
| 1999 |
Faculty Fellowship Award, The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation (for Land of Sunshine) |
| 1999 |
“Jumpstart” technology grant (USC Libraries) for PLUS 599: Los Angeles and Chicago |
| 1996 |
Southern California Studies Center (SC2) Fellow |
| 1996 |
John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library |
| 1995 |
Research Fellow, USC Lusk Center |
| 1991 |
Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library |
| 1990-91 |
Kenneth E. and Dorothy Hill Fellowship, The Bancroft Library |
| 1990-91 |
Beeke-Levy Research Fellowship, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library |
| FUNDED RESEARCH |
| 2006-08 |
“A New History of Los Angeles,” Co-Principal Investigator with William Deverell, The John Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation ($29,000) |
| 2006-07 |
“Creating the Grid: Infrastructure and the Production of Location,” Principal Investigator, USC Lusk Center ($13,000) |
| 2004-06 |
“Industrial Los Angeles: Social-Science Informed Photographic Documentation,” Co-Principal Investigator with Martin Krieger, The John Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation ($101,000) |
| 2002-04 |
“Sheltering the Other Los Angeles,” Principal Investigator with Todd Gish (PhD candidate), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ($25,000) |
| 1998-99 |
James Irvine Foundation grant, Encyclopedia of Southern California ($27,500) |
| 1997 |
"Historical Records Survey," Principal Investigator with Patrick Wirtz, Newhall Land and Farming Company ($20,000) |
| 1994-95 |
"Invented Streets," Co-Principal Investigator with Tridib Banerjee, Genevieve Giuliano, and David Sloane, International Council of Shopping Centers ($15,000) |
| PUBLICATIONS |
| Books |
|
| 2000 |
A Companion to Los Angeles with William Deverell (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing) |
| 2005 |
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles with William Deverell (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press) Paperback edition, 2006 |
| 1996 |
Rethinking Los Angeles with Michael J. Dear and H. Eric Schockman (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications) |
| Edited journals |
| 1999 |
“Orange Empires,” Pacific Historical Review 67/2 (May) with William Deverell and David C. Sloane |
| Refereed journal articles |
| Forthcoming |
“Industry, Political Alliances and the Regulation of Urban Space in Los Angeles,” Urban History |
| Forthcoming |
“Whither the Region?” Journal of Planning History |
| Forthcoming |
“Los Angeles 1900,” Victorian Review with William Deverell |
| Forthcoming |
“Big Projects, Grand Plans: Comparing Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and the United Arab Emirates,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly |
| 2008 |
“Neighbourhood: A Keyword for Urbanism,” International Journal of Neighbourhood Renewal 1/1: 5-10 |
| 2008 |
“Architecture as State Building: A Challenge to the Field,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67/2: 173-77 |
| 2007 |
"Identity and Social Distance in Los Angeles," Landscape Journal 26/1: 45-60 |
| 2006 |
“Sixty Stories in Search of a City,” California History 83/3: 8-27
Excerpted in arcCA 6/2: (June 2006) |
| 2006 |
"Teaching Planners History," Journal of Planning History 5/4: 271-79 |
| 2004 |
"Border City: Race and Social Distance in Los Angeles," American Quarterly 56/3 (Sept.): 545-58
Reprinted in Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures, Raul Homero Villa and George J. Sanchez, eds.
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005): 47-60 |
| 2001 |
"’Nature's Workshop’: Industry and Urban Expansion in Southern California, 1900-1950," Journal of Historical Geography 27/2 (Jan.): 74-92
Reprinted in Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe, Robert Lewis, ed.
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004): 178-99 |
| 2001 |
“’The Art Political’ and Los Angeles Park Planning,” Planning Perspectives 16/4 (Oct.): 1-3 |
| 1999 |
“Orange Empires: Comparing Miami and Los Angeles,” (with William Deverell and David C. Sloane), Pacific Historical Review 67/2 (May): 145-52 |
| 1993 |
"Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles: The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region," Journal of Urban History 19/2 (Feb.): 95-125
Reprinted in Planning the Twentieth-Century American City, Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver, eds.
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996): 240-61 |
| 1993 |
"Building the World of Tomorrow: Regional Visions, Modern Community Housing and America's Postwar Urban Expansion," Center: A Journal for Architecture in America 8: 52-61 |
| Contributions to books |
| Forthcoming |
“Planning Los Angeles,” in Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Ursula von Petz, eds. Stadtplanung in den USA, vol. 2 (Dortmund: Dormunder Beitraege zur Raumplanung) |
| Forthcoming |
“Situating Stories: What Has Been Said About Nature and the Built Environment,” in Deverell and Hise, eds. A Blackwell Companion to Los Angeles |
| 2009 |
“Neighborhood,” in Christian Topalov, et al, eds. Trésor des mots de la ville (A Treasury of City Words) (Paris: Robert Laffont) |
| 2007 |
“City Planning in Los Angeles,” (with Todd Gish) in Tom Sitton, ed. The Development of Los Angeles Government, An Institutional History 1850-2000 (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Historical Society): 329-69 |
| 2006 |
“Un Ville dans Un Jardin: Nature et Metropole en Californie du Sud” ("The City in A Garden: Metropolitan Nature in Southern California"), in Augustin Berque, et.al. eds., Le Ville Insoutenable (Paris: Belin): 194-207 |
| 2005 |
"The Metropolitan Nature of Los Angeles," (with William Deverell) in Deverell and Hise, eds., Land of Sunshine (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press): 1-12 |
| 2001 |
"Industry and Imaginative Geographies," in William Deverell and Tom Sitton, eds., Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (Berkeley: University of California Press): 13-44 |
| 2001 |
“Industry and the Landscape of Social Reform," in Michael J. Dear ed., From Chicago to Los Angeles: Making Sense of Urban Theory (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications): 95-130 |
| 1996 |
"Rethinking Los Angeles," (with Michael J. Dear and H. Eric Schockman), in Dear et al., Rethinking Los Angeles (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications): 1-14 |
| 1995 |
"The Airplane and the Garden City: Regional Transformations during World War II," in Donald Albrecht, ed., World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation (Cambridge: MIT Press with the National Building Museum): 144-83
Excerpted in Architecture California 17 (May, 1995): 47-54 |
| 1995 |
"Building Design as Social Art: The Public Architecture of William Wurster, 1935-1950," in Marc Treib, ed., An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster (Berkeley: University of California Press with SFMOMA): 138-63 |
| 1995 |
"From Roadside Camps to `Garden' Homes: Housing and Community Planning for California's Migrant Workforce, 1935-41," in Elizabeth Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins, eds., Gender, Race and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture V (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press): 243-58 |
| Manuscripts in progress |
| Journal article |
“Property and Politics in a Yankee Pueblo: Legacies of Regime Change in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles,” for submission to Journal of American History |
| Book mss |
Property Rights and Civil Rights: Loren Miller’s Quest for Open Housing |
| Online publications |
| 2008 |
“Space, States, and Architectural History,” Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) (http://www.inha.fr/colloques/index.php) |
| 2005 |
“What is Implied, What is Unspoken When We Reconceptualize?” “History of the Built Environment” proceedings, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cwc/builtenv/Paper%20PDFs/Hise.pdf) |
| EDITORIAL BOARDS |
| 2002- |
Journal of Planning History |
| 2006- |
Public Works Management & Policy |
| 2006-08 |
Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
| Forthcoming |
Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco, Philip Dreyfus. Nevada Historical Quarterly |
| 2005 |
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles, Jared Orsi. Western Historical Quarterly 36/2 (Summer) |
| 2003 |
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, Adam Rome. Planning Perspectives 18/4 (Oct.) |
| 2003 |
Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900, Maria E. Montoya. Enterprise and Society 4/3 (Sept.): 567-69 |
| 2003 |
Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy. Journal of Regional Science 43/2 (May): 417-18 |
| 2001 |
The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940, Max Page. The Public Historian 23/2: 100-02 |
| 2001 |
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present, Martin V. Melosi. Journal of American History 88/4 (March): 1538 |
| 2000 |
California and the Fictions of Capital, George Henderson. Enterprise and Society 1/3 (Sept.) |
| 1998 |
Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, William Fulton. Journal of American History 86/1 (June): 165 |
| 1998 |
City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950, Richard Longstreth. Planning Perspectives 14/1 (Jan.) and Historical Geography 27 |
| 1998 |
The Writings of Clarence S. Stein: Architect of the Planned Community, Kermit Carlyle Parsons. Vernacular Architecture Newsletter 82 (Winter) |
| 1997 |
"City Slices" review essay in Journal of Urban History 24/1 (Nov): 111-19 |
| 1995 |
The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West, Carl Abbott . Journal of the American Planning Association 61 (Winter) |
| 1994 |
The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920, Mansel G. Blackford. Journal of the American Planning Association 60 (Autumn) |
| 1994 |
Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown, Barbara M. Kelly. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53 (Dec.): 473-75 |
| RESEARCH REPORTS |
| 2002 |
“Neighborhood: A Key Concept for Development and Planning,” Lusk Center Research Brief (4 pp.) |
| 2001 |
“Industry and Urbanization in Southern California, 1900-1950,” Lusk Center Research Brief (4 pp.) |
| 1996 |
"Invented and Reinvented Streets: Designing the New Shopping Experience," with Tridib Banerjee, Genevieve Giuliano, and David Sloane, Lusk Review 2/1 (Summer): 18-30 |
| 1995 |
"Aviation and Western Metropolitan Development," Lusk Center Working Paper (12 pp.) |
| 1995 |
"Invented Streets: New Retail Formats," with Tridib Banerjee, Genevieve Giuliano, and David Sloane, Lusk Center Research Report (25 pp.) |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS |
| 2004 |
“Industry and Urbanization in Southern California,” Real Estate Review 32/4 (Winter): 9-14 |
| 2001 |
“Consider the Big Picture in Creating L.A.’s Open Spaces,” Los Angeles Times, Opinion section (Sunday, May 6) |
| 2000 |
“Public Transit in Los Angeles,” (Il trasporto pubblico a Los Angeles) Casabella 683 (Nov): 26-9 |
| 1996 |
“Los Angeles: 1920,” Westways: The Magazine for Southern California 88/7 |
| LECTURES AND CONFERENCES |
| Invited presentations |
| 2009 |
“Green Community Planning: A History,” National Building Museum (October) |
| 2009 |
“Public Works as Public Space,” Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urbanism (August) |
| 2009 |
“Berlin, Los Angeles, and the Uses of History,” Aedes Gallery (Berlin) (July) |
| 2009 |
“Landscape as History,” Keynote address, Historical Society of Southern California annual conference (April) |
| 2008 |
“How We Talk About Los Angeles and Why This Matters,” Los Angeles Public Library (November) |
| 2008 |
“Going Global: Big Projects and Grand Plans,” Las Vegas Valley Book Festival (November) |
| 2008 |
“History and Historic Preservation,” Roundtable for EDAW Intern Program |
| 2008 |
“Planning Southern California: Why Region Still Matters,” Research and Collections Speaker, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (March) |
| 2007 |
“Prior Visions for the Los Angeles Watershed,” USC Watershed Forum (September) |
| 2007 |
“Whither the Region?” Presidential Address, Society for American City and Regional Planning History (October) |
| 2007 |
“Looking at Los Angeles,” Conference keynote, Lamda Alpha International (October) |
| 2006 |
“Urban Keywords: How Certain Terms Have Shaped Our Understanding of Cities,” F. Ross Johnson/Connaught Distinguished Speakers Series, University of Toronto (March) |
| 2005 |
"Sixty Myths in Search of a City," Haynes Foundation Lecture, The Huntington Library (May) |
| 2005 |
"The Future of Built Environment Studies," Roundtable at the conference "Reconceptualizing the History of the Built Environment in North America," Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University (April) |
| 2005 |
“Los Angeles: City or Anti-City?” Keynote address, Congress for the New Urbanism (June) |
| 2005 |
"The State in Architectural History," Plenary address for the conference "Changing Boundaries – Architectural History in Transition," Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) and Society of Architectural Historians (September) |
| 2004 |
“’Mexicans and that sort of thing’: Race and Social Distance in Los Angeles,” for the conference “Constructing Race: The Built Environment, Minoritization, and Racism in the United States,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (March) |
| 2004 |
“Metropolitan Nature: Housing, the Environment, and Urbanization in Southern California,” for the colloquium “Les Trois Sources de La Ville-Campagne,” Centre Cerisy-la-Salle, France (September) |
| 2004 |
"Race and Social Distance in Los Angeles," Research and Collections Speaker, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (December) |
| 2003 |
“Regional Planning in Los Angeles,” for the “Land Use Planning Then and Now” symposium, Program for the Study of the North American West, Stanford University (May) |
| 2003 |
“Metropolitan Nature: Regulating Land Use and the Environment in Los Angeles,” keynote address for a Haynes Foundation conference “A Sustainable Future? Environmental Patterns and the Los Angeles Past,” California Institute of Technology (September) |
| 2003 |
“Mapping the History of Los Angeles,” California Map Society (February) |
| 2003 |
“Who Built Postwar Los Angeles?” Historical Society of Southern California (October) |
| 2003 |
Panelist, “Whose Global City? A Look at LA in the New Century,” Mark Taper Forum (June) |
| 2003 |
Roundtable discussant, “Teaching Planning History,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History (October) |
| 2003 |
Roundtable discussant, “New Cities : New Media,” USC School of Architecture (January) |
| 2002 |
“Suburbanization as Urbanization,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst (February) |
| 2002 |
“Preserving a Legacy: Los Angeles’ Postwar Suburbs,” Getty Conservation Institute (February) |
| 2002 |
“The Natural Environment,” Los Angeles History conference, The Huntington Library (May) |
| 2002 |
“Type or Prototype? Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles,” Columbia Seminar on the City (March) |
| 2002 |
Roundtable discussant, “Comparative Urbanism,” Urban History Association (October) |
| 2001 |
“Eden by Design,” Keynote address, Urban History Association Annual Luncheon (May) |
| 2001 |
“Urban Design in Los Angeles,” Cal State Los Angeles (February) |
| 2000 |
“Eden by Design: Planning, Politics, and Power in Los Angeles,” Taubman College Lecture Series, University of Michigan (November) |
| 2000 |
“Manufacturing Eden: Industry and Urban Expansion in Southern California,” California State University, Fullerton (March) |
| 2000 |
“Planning Los Angeles,” Southwest Area Planning Council (Los Angeles County) (August) |
| 2000 |
“Los Angeles in 2050,” Marie Northrop Lecture series, Los Angeles City Historical Society (June) |
| 2000 |
“Back to the Future,” Comment for Temple Hoyne Buell lecture series, Columbia University (September) |
| 1997 |
"Industry and Imaginative Geographies in 1920s Los Angeles," The American City lecture series, California Institute of Technology (May) |
| 1997 |
"Nature's Workshop," The Industrialization of the Los Angeles Region conference, The Huntington Library (April) |
| 1997 |
"Regional City or Urban Region? Planning and Postwar Development in the San Fernando Valley," Valley Pioneer Lecture, California State University, Northridge (October) |
| 1997 |
"Magnetic Los Angeles," Lamda Alpha, Orange County and Los Angeles Chapters (July) |
| 1997 |
Plenary address, Emerging Opportunities in a Changing World conference, Urban Land Institute (September) |
| 1996 |
"Planning the Postwar Metropolis: Precedents, Principles, Patterns," College of Environmental Design lecture series, University of California, Berkeley (October) |
| 1996 |
"Constructing `Nature's Workshop': Industrial Districts and Urban Expansion in Southern California," California Studies Seminar, University of California, Berkeley (October) |
| 1996 |
"Suburbanization as Urbanization," Metropolitan Landscape Symposium, Automobile Club of Southern California (April) |
| 1995 |
"The Airplane and the Garden City," Urban Studies Seminar, U.C. San Diego (October) |
| 1995 |
"Housing for the Homefront: Migration, Industrial Location, and Modern Community Planning in California, 1920-1950," The Impact of World War II on California conference, Huntington Library (March) |
| 1994 |
"Architecture, Planning and Ethics," Rethinking Los Angeles symposium, USC (March) |
| 1991 |
“Defense Policy, Community Builders, and Blue-Collar Suburbs in Los Angeles," Los Angeles History Research Group, Huntington Library (November) |
| 1991 |
"The Aircraft Industry in Los Angeles," Munro Seminar, California Institute of Technology (November) |
| Conference presentations |
| 2008 |
“The ‘Bust of the (Eighteen) Nineties’: or What Might be Learned from a Downturn,” Urban History Association |
| 2008 |
“Municipal Enterprise in Los Angeles,” Business History Conference |
| 2008 |
“Scales of Knowledge,” Pacific Coast Branch/American Historical Association |
| 2008 |
“Photographing Power: Southern California Edison and Southern California,” Pacific Coast Branch/American Historical Association |
| 2008 |
“Municipal Enterprise in Los Angeles,” Vernacular Architecture Forum |
| 2005 |
"Globalism on the Ground: Architecture, Landscape, and Identity in Los Angeles," Society of Architectural Historians |
| 2002 |
“Forget the Hype, Los Angeles as a Type (not prototype)” Urban History Association |
| 2001 |
“Los Angeles: A History,” Organization of American Historians |
| 2000 |
“Public Land, Civic Patrimony: Legacies of Spanish Tenure in Nineteenth- Century Los Angeles,” Society of Architectural Historians |
| 2000 |
“Ciudad to City: Continuity and Change in the Urban Landscape of Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles,” Vernacular Architecture Forum |
| 2000 |
“Grand Theory, Real Places,” American Studies Association |
| 2000 |
“Learning from the Past,” American Planning Association, Region VI |
| 1999 |
“The Nature of Power in 1920s Los Angeles,” SACRPH |
| 1998 |
"The Politics of Nature," Association of American Geographers |
| 1996 |
"Suburbanization as Urbanization," Association of American Geographers |
| 1996 |
"`What Kind of Pittsburgh is Los Angeles?’" Vernacular Architecture Forum |
| 1995 |
"Cities and Flight: `Airline Space-Time' and Western Metropolitan Development," The American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch |
| 1995 |
Aviation and Western Metropolitan Development," SACRPH |
| 1994 |
"Working-Class Home Ownership in Los Angeles, 1930-1950," Association of American Geographers |
| 1994 |
"Sixty Suburbs in Search of Community: Mass Builders and Working-Class Home Ownership in Los Angeles, 1930-1950," American Studies Association |
| 1994 |
"Regional Transformations in Western Cities During World War II," Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning |
| 1993 |
"The `Garden Metropolis:' Community Builders and Post-World War II Urban Expansion in the United States," Society of Architectural Historians |
| 1993 |
"Building an American Dream: Los Angeles and the Garden City Ideal," The American Historical Association /Pacific Coast Branch |
| 1993 |
"Constructing a Garden City in Los Angeles," California Historical Society |
| 1992 |
"Living in the 'Town of Tomorrow' Today," Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas, Austin |
| 1991 |
"Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles" Joint International Conference of the Planning History Group and the Urban History Association |
| 1990 |
"Communitarian Ideals and Technocratic Reform: Conflicting Visions for the FSA Migratory Labor Camp Program in California, 1935-41," Society of Architectural Historians |
| 1990 |
"From Roadside Camps to ‘Garden’ Homes," Vernacular Architecture Forum |
| 1989 |
"Housing and Community Planning for California's Migrant Workforce, 1935-1941," Nevada Historical Society |
| Session chair and comment |
| 2009 |
Open Session, Society of Architectural Historians |
| 2006 |
Symposium moderator and commentator, “Shaping Southern California: Transportation and Water,” The Huntington Library |
| 2004 |
Summative comment for the conference "The Entertainment Industry: City Building and the Development of Southern California," The Huntington Library |
| 2003 |
“Space and the Built Environment,” Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures, American Quarterly and The Huntington Library |
| 2003 |
“Urban Re-Readings,” New Cities : New Media, USC School of Architecture |
| 2002 |
“Industrial Meat,” Industrializing Organisms Conference, Rutgers, New Brunswick |
| 2001 |
“The Politics of Planning,” SACRPH |
| 1998 |
"Learning from Los Angeles," Society of Architectural Historians (session organizer) |
| 1998 |
"Constructing the Urban, Remaking the Natural," Western History Association |
| 1997 |
"Planning in the American West," SACRPH |
| 1993 |
"Shopping Shapes the City," SACRPH (session co-organizer) |
| Guest lectures |
| 2000 |
“History, Memory, Places,” Department of Geography, UCLA |
| 1997 |
"Cities and Suburbs," Department of Urban Planning, UCLA |
| 1995 |
"Southern California Urbanisms," Department of History, USC |
| 1993 |
"Alternative Los Angeles," Department of Geography, USC |
| 1992 |
"The City-Building Process in Los Angeles," School of Architecture, USC |
| 1990 |
"New Deal Rural Landscapes," College of Environmental Design, U.C. Berkeley |
| RADIO, TELEVISION, PRINT MEDIA |
| 2006 |
“Eye on LA” (KABC), on camera discussion of Los Angeles economy |
| 2003 |
“Which Way LA?” (KCRW), discussion of sustainability in Los Angeles |
| 2002 |
“Art History is Moving to the Suburbs” feature in Los Angeles Times Magazine |
| 2001 |
“The Book Show with Patt Marrison” (KCET) public television segment on Eden by Design |
| 2000 |
“Lakewood at Fifty,” Channel 31 (Lakewood, CA) documentary |
| 2000 |
“Life and Times” (KCET), discussion of Eden by Design |
| 2000 |
Airtalk” (KPCC), interview and call-in discussion of Eden by Design |
| 1999 |
“Talk of the Nation” (National Public Radio), panel discussion of suburbs |
| 1998 |
“Airtalk” (KPCC), panel discussion of “Orange Empires” conference |
| 1998 |
“Airtalk” (KPCC), interview and call-in discussion of Magnetic Los Angeles |
| 1996 |
NBC Nightly News (Los Angeles affiliate), commentary on popular perceptions of Los Angeles |
| CONSULTING AND ADVISING |
| 2008- |
Advisor, “Whitewashed Adobe,” Chasing Light Pictures, LLC (four-part PBS documentary) |
| 2007-09 |
Advisor, “Green Communities,” National Building Museum |
| 2007-08 |
Consultant, “Historic Context Statement and Field Guide,” City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources and the Getty Conservation Institute |
| 2007-08 |
Advisor, “Photography in Los Angeles,” The Huntington Library |
| 2007 |
Advisor, “Under the Sun,” Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |
| 2007 |
Advisor, Writer’s Workshop, Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles) |
| 2003-04 |
Advisor, “Building America,” National Building Museum (permanent exhibit) |
| 2003 |
Advisor, Committee for the California History Plan, California Department of Parks and Recreation |
| 2002 |
Participant, ULI Mayor’s Forum “Bringing Community Back to the City” |
| 2001-02 |
Advisor, KCET (PBS) “California: A Thematic History” |
| 2001 |
Visiting Scholar, Center for History Social Science Education, Cal State University |
| 2001 |
Advisor, The Autry Museum (content and design of permanent exhibit) |
| 1999 |
Advisor, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), "Made in California, 1900-2000" |
| 1998 |
Advisor, "Reframing Suburbia" conference, Departments of Architecture and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota |
| 1995 |
Advisor, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "The Houses of William Wurster" |
| 1995 |
Advisor, Automobile Club of Southern California symposium, "Metropolitan Landscape" |
| 1994 |
Advisor, National Building Museum, "World War II and the American Dream" |
| NATIONAL BOARDS AND COMMITTEES |
| 2009 |
Chair, Nominating Committee, Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) |
| 2003-09 |
President-Elect, President, Past-President, SACRPH |
| 2003-05 |
Member, Board of Directors, Urban History Association (UHA) |
| 2003 |
Chair, book prize committee, UHA |
| 1995-2001 |
Member, Board of Directors, SACRPH |
| 2000 |
Member, Spiro Kostof Book Prize Committee, Society of Architectural Historians |
| 1999 |
Member, Lewis Mumford Book Prize Committee, SACRPH |
| 1997 |
Member, Nominations Committee, Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) |
| 1993-96 |
Member, Board of Directors, VAF |
| 1995 |
Member, Theodora Kimball Hubbard Prize Committee, SACRPH |
| CONFERENCE ORGANIZING |
| 2007-08 |
Member, Program Committee, UHA |
| 2006 |
Member, Evolution of Urban Form special track committee, American Planning Association (APA) |
| 2006 |
Co-organizer, “Models and Stories: Explaining the Long Processes of Cities,” Lusk Research Center (USC) |
| 2004-05 |
Chair, Program Committee, SACRPH |
| 2002-04 |
Steering Committee, Los Angeles History Research Group |
| 2003 |
Member, Program Committee, California Studies |
| 1999 |
Referee, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture |
| 1998 |
Co-Organizer, "Orange Empires," Huntington Library, Getty Research Institute, and Southern California Studies Center (USC) |
| 1998 |
Member, Program Committee, Western History Association |
| 1997 |
Member, Program Committee, SACRPH |
| 1995 |
Member, Program Committee, VAF |
| 1995 |
Referee, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture |
| 1994 |
Chair, Program Committee, VAF |
| 1993-94 |
Co-Organizer, "Rethinking Los Angeles," USC |
| MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS |
| 2007 |
University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Minnesota Press |
| 2006 |
Pacific Historical Review |
| 2005 |
Environment and Planning: A |
| 2004 |
University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Chicago Press, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of American History |
| 2003 |
University of California Press, Urban History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |
| 2002 |
Routledge, Guilford, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Temple University Press |
| 2001 |
University of California Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, California History |
| 2000 |
University of Pittsburgh Press, Journal of Urban History, Housing Policy Debate |
| 1999 |
University of California Press, Pacific Historical Review, Housing Policy Debate |
| 1998 |
University of California Press, Journal of the American Planning Association |
| 1997 |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 1996 |
University of California Press, Journal of Architectural Education,
Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VIII (University of Tennessee Press) |
| 1995 |
Journal of Planning Education, University of Kentucky Press, Urban Studies |
| 1994 |
Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Architectural Education |
| 1993 |
University of New Mexico Press, Wadsworth Publishing Company |
| ACADEMIC SERVICE (USC) |
| 2006 |
Member, EDGE-SBE Advisory Committee |
| 2004-05 |
Member, Executive Committee, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity |
| 2004 |
Faculty Senate representative for SPPD |
| 2002-03 |
Member, Academic Policies and Procedures Committee (Faculty Senate) |
| 1994-97 |
Member, Executive Committee, Information System for Los Angeles (ISLA) |
| 1995-96 |
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee |
| 1992-94 |
Member, Academic Integrity Review Panel |
| UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS (USC) |
| 2005-07 |
Co-Director, Cultural Landscape Study Group, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) |
| DEPARTMENT / SCHOOL APPOINTMENTS |
| UNLV |
|
| 2009-10 |
Member, Personnel Committee |
| 2008-09 |
Member, Curriculum Committee |
| USC |
| 2007-08 |
Chair, Faculty Council |
| |
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee |
| 2005-06 |
Member, Faculty Council |
| |
Member, Undergraduate Committee |
| |
Member, Community Economic Development Search Committee |
| |
Member, IT Classroom Committee |
| 2005 |
Member, Third-year Review Committee (Redfearn) |
| 2003-04 |
Member, Ferraro Chair Search Committee |
| 2002-03 |
Member, Doctoral Committee |
| |
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee |
| |
Member, Land Use Planning Search Committee |
| 1999-00 |
Member, Faculty Council |
| |
Member, Undergraduate Committee, Doctoral Committee, Vision Committee |
| 1997-98 |
Chair, Undergraduate Committee |
| |
Member, Environment and Building Committee |
| 1996-97 |
Member, Doctoral Committee |
| 1995-97 |
Chair, Urban Design Committee |
| 1994- |
Co-Organizer, Lewis Mumford Prize in Urban and Planning History |
| 1992-94 |
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee |
| |
Member, Urban Design Committee |
| COURSES TAUGHT |
| UNLV (* designates a course I developed) |
| Undergraduate |
| |
HIST 434/634: Cities in American History |
| |
*HIST 498/698: Los Angeles History |
| Graduate |
| |
HIST 730: Colloquium in Urban History |
| |
HIST 731: Seminar in Urban History |
| USC |
|
| Undergraduate |
| |
PPD 100m: Los Angeles, The Enduring Pueblo |
| |
PLDV 150: Emergence of the American City |
| |
PLDV 275: Environment and Behavior |
| |
*PLDV 315: Urban Sleuths: Exploring People and Places in Cities |
| |
PLDV 355: Introduction to Planning |
| |
PLDV 414: Introduction to Physical and Spatial Design |
| |
*PPD 417: History of Planning and Development |
| |
PLDV 491: Thesis Seminar |
| Graduate |
|
| |
*PPD 530: Historical Analysis of Urban Form |
| |
*PLUS 599: Why Place Matters |
| |
*PLUS 599: Spatiality: Theory and Method |
| |
*PLUS 599: Comparative Urban Analysis: Chicago and Los Angele |
| |
*PLUS 599: Suburbs: Structure and Culture on the Urban Edge |
| |
*PLUS 599: Topics in Urban History |
| |
PLUS 601: Planning Theory |
| |
MRED 674: Planning and Development History |
| |
PPD 708: Qualitative Methods |
| |
*PPD 714: Urban Development |
| GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEMENT |
| UNLV |
|
| Dissertation Committees |
| |
4 current |
| Thesis Committees |
| |
5 current (Chair for 3) |
| USC |
|
| Dissertation Committees (1994-2009) |
| |
3 current, 17 completed (3 as Chair) |
| Qualifying Exam Committees (in addition to above) |
| |
11 completed |
| PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (Architecture) |
| 1987-88 |
Michael Pyatok Associates |
| 1985-87 |
Don Dommer Associates |
| 1985 |
Fisher-Friedman Associates |
| 1982-85 |
Hirshen Gamill Trumbo Architects |
| ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS |
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American Historical Association |
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American Studies Association |
| |
Organization of American Historians |
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Society for American City and Regional Planning History |
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Society of Architectural Historians |
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Urban History Association |
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Vernacular Architecture Forum |
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Western History Association |
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