This book was generously supported by a publication grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Additional support during various stages of the project came from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation; the Rockefeller Archive Center; the Clemson University College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities; and the Clemson University School of Architecture.
Another group of institutions that must be recognized is made up of archives, along with their archivists, the heroes of history. This book would not exist without them. I must therefore thank Michelle Hiltzik, Ken Rose, Darwin Stapleton, and the Rockefeller Archive Center; Justine Sundaram, David Horn, John Attebury, and the John J. Burns Library, Boston College; Janet Parks, Julie Tozer, Nicole Richard, and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University; Mary Daniels and the Harvard GSD Frances Loeb Library; Martin Manning, U.S. Department of State; Michelle Morgan, Susan Snyder, and the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Carmen Hendershott and the New School for Social Research; Nancy Shawcross and the Special Collections department at the library of the University of Pennsylvania; William Whitaker, Nancy Thorne, and the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives; Syracuse University Special Collections; Cornell University Special Collections; Douglas Di Carlo and the La Guardia and Wagner Archive; the National Personnel Records Center; Millie Molina and Howard Marder, NYC Housing Authority; and Jean Ashton, the library director emerita of the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the New-York Historical Society. Dr. Ashton, whom I’m fortunate to have as part of my extended family, also helped me by reading various versions of this manuscript.
As essential as archival material is to this book, raw material is not enough. At At the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Graduate School of Design, I was fortunate to work with some of the most distinguished historians. I am especially grateful to David Leatherbarrow, David Brownlee, and Robert Wojtowicz. This book is unquestionably better, in every way, because of them.
This book is also much better, and indeed exists at all, thanks to Bob Lockhart and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania Press, including the series editor Casey Blake, the associate managing editor Erica Ginsburg, and the copy editor Christine Dahlin. I thank them all for their patience, enthusiasm, and knowledgeable assistance in bringing this book into being.
For further encouragement, advice, and support, in ways large and small, some known to them and some unknown, but all valuable to me and not forgotten, I must thank a long list of people. This large group includes George Baird, Hilary Ballon, Ellen Perry Berkeley, the late Peter Blake, Wanda Bubriski, Carol Burns, Jose Caban, Charlie Cannon, Ted Cavanagh, the late Grady Clay, Matthew Crane, George Dodds, Kathy Edwards, Alexander Eisenschmidt, Paul Emmons, Jason Epstein, Ufuk Ersoy, Erdem Erten, the late James Marston Fitch, Marguerite Gilpatric, Rick Goodstein, Bob Gomel, Roberta Brandes Gratz, Keith Green, Nancy Hadley, Anna Vortmann Hakes, Richard Harris, K. Michael Hays, Benjamin Hemric, Sarah Herda, Juan Manuel Heredia, Dafnne Wejebe Iberri, Akel Kahera, Andrea Kahn, Kostis Kourelis, Alex Krieger, Susan Lander, Glenna Lang, Liane Lefaivre, Kasia Leousis, Zhongjie Lin, Jim London, Richard Longstreth, Judith McCandless, Tim Mennel, Susan Morris, Eric Mumford, Taner Oc, Joan Ockman, Norman Oder, Alejandra Palomares, Max Page, Linda Pollak, Hassan Radione, Jamin Rowan, Mary Rowe, Mariel Rubio, Joseph Rykwert, Hashim Sarkis, Junichi Satoh, Iram Satti, Kate Schwennsen, David Seamon, Joan Shigekawa, Michael Southworth, Krista Sykes, Russell Terry, Alexander Tzonis, Kazys Varnelis, Robert Venturi, Alexander von Hoffman, Darren Walker, Sarah Whiting, Beverly Willis, Alina Yakubova, Artemiy Zheltov, and my colleagues at Clemson.
I hope all those mentioned will approve of, or would have approved of, this book. This wish extends to the late Jane Jacobs herself—whose invitation to her home in 1999 encouraged me to pursue this long project— and to her family.
The last thank you, and a big one, goes to my inspiring partner, Susanna Ashton, a prolific scholar and a master of family organization, who wrote three or four books while I wrote this one.