Alison Isenberg (June 16, 1962 - October 23, 2025)[1] was an American historian, and a professor of history at Princeton University.[2][3] She received the Ellis W. Hawley Prize in 2005 for her book Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It.[4]
Books
- Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (University of Chicago Press, 2004)[5][6][7][8]
- Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay (Princeton University Press, 2017)[9][10]
References
- ^ "Alison Ellen Isenberg". legacy.com. Retrieved December 30, 2025.
- ^ Aronson, Emily (November 7, 2025). "Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies at age 63". www.princeton.edu. Princeton University. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
- ^ Bachin, Robin F. (November 13, 2025). "Tribute to Alison Isenberg". sacrph.org. Society for American City and Regional Planning History. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
- ^ "Ellis W. Hawley Prize | Past Winners". www.oah.org. Organization of American Historians. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
- ^ Belisle, Donica (2005). "Review of downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It, by A. Isenberg". Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire Urbaine. 34 (1): 115–116. JSTOR 43562350.
- ^ Vitiello, Domenic (November 1, 2006). "Book Review: Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It". Urban Affairs Review. 42 (2): 281–283. doi:10.1177/1078087406290295 – via SAGE Journals.
- ^ Gogan, Tanya (November 19, 2008). "Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (review)". Enterprise & Society. 9 (1): 228–231 – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Hayden, Dolores (December 1, 2006). "ALISON ISENBERG. Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 441. $32.50". The American Historical Review. 111 (5): 1533–1534. doi:10.1086/ahr.111.5.1533. ISSN 0002-8762.
- ^ Howell, Ocean (2018). "Review of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay". The American Historical Review. 123 (3): 976–977. JSTOR 26581265.
- ^ Parscher, Justin (November 8, 2018). "Book Review: Where Credit's Due | Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay by Alison Isenberg". Landscape Architecture Magazine.
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