Recent Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity:

Searching for the Good City: Design, Identity, Sense of Place
- Book manuscript analyzing the love-hate relationship with the city in the 20th century and probing possibilities
for the urbane city. An international perspective.
- Status: Manuscript under preparation; proposal under publisher review.

Behind the Wall; An American in East Germany, 1988-1989. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

The Architecture of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Rosebud Books Division of Knapp Communications (publishers of Architectural Digest), 1981.

"Fordismus und Amerika in den 20er Jahren: Vorstellung und Realität." (Fordism and America in the 1920s; Image and Reality), pp. 92-105 in Bittner, et al., eds., Zukunft aus Amerika: Fordismus in der Zwischenkriegszeit (The Future Comes from America; Fordism in the Inter-War Period). Dessau and Aachen: Bauhaus Dessau and Technical University of Aachen, 1995.

"Santa Fe Without Adobe; Lessons for the Identity of Place," Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 11, 3 (Autumn 1994): 181-196.

"The Mall and the City: Cross-Cultural Influences in America and Europe." Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 1, 3 (March 1994): 221-236.

"Doctor, Lawyer, Chief: Three Models of Design Review," Urban Design and Preservation Quarterly 15, 3/4 (Winter 1992-Spring 1993): 15-20.