Alison Isenberg

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Alison Isenberg (June 16, 1962 - October 23, 2025) [1] was an American historian. She was 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]

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  1. "Alison Ellen Isenberg". legacy.com. Retrieved December 30, 2025.
  2. 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.
  3. Bachin, Robin F. (November 13, 2025). "Tribute to Alison Isenberg". sacrph.org. Society for American City and Regional Planning History. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
  4. "Ellis W. Hawley Prize | Past Winners". www.oah.org. Organization of American Historians . Retrieved December 12, 2025.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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 .