Alison Isenberg

Alison Isenberg (died October 23, 2025) was an American historian. She was a professor of history at Princeton University. ^{[1] [2]}

Books

• Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (University of Chicago Press, 2004) ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}
• Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay (Princeton University Press, 2017) ^[7]

References

1. "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.
2. "Tribute to Alison Isenberg". November 13, 2025.
3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43562350
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. "Validate User".
7. Staff, L. A. M. (November 8, 2018). "Book Review: Where Credit's Due | Landscape Architecture Magazine". Landscape Architecture Magazine | The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects.