Nicholas Dagen Bloom

nbloom@nyit.edu

Academic Experience

New York Institute of Technology (2003-Present)

Associate Professor, Social Sciences (2008-Present)

Assistant Professor (2003-2008)

Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies (2004-Present)

Director, Urban Administration Program (2014-)

Co-Editor with Sonia Hirt (Virginia Tech)

Journal of Planning History (2014-2017)

Published by the Society for American City and Regional Planning

History (SACRPH) and SAGE Publications

Tulane University (2000-2003)

Senior Program Coordinator (2001-2003)

Urban Village/Cities and Environment Interdisciplinary Experiences

Adjunct Lecturer in History and Architecture (2002-2003)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History (2000-2001)

Education Ph.D., American History, Brandeis University, 1993-1999 “Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns” Dissertation Committee: James T. Kloppenberg, Morton Keller, Casey Blake B.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Honors Program, 1987-1991 Graduated with Honors and Distinction; Senior Thesis Prize (Paul Boyer, Advisor)

Books

The Metropolitan Airport:

JFK International and Modern New York

University of Pennsylvania Press

American Business, Politics, and Public Policy Series

Mark Rose, Series Editor

Fall, 2015

Affordable Housing in New York City:

Triumph, Challenge, and Opportunity

Princeton University Press

Co-Author/Editor with Mathew Gordon Lasner

Ford Foundation/IIE Publication Grant ($5000)

New York State Council for the Arts Grant ($10000)

Fall, 2015 (250 Images)

Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

Cornell University Press

Co-Editor with Lawrence Vale (MIT) and

Fritz Umbach (John Jay)

Spring, 2015

Public Housing That Worked:

New York in the Twentieth Century

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published in Cloth, May 2008 (Sold Out); Paper, March 2009

Reviewed/Featured in Social Service Review, The New York Times, Choice (Highly Recommended), The Journal of American History, H-Net Reviews, Planning, Reference and Research Book News, Rorotoko, Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC), Housing Studies, WPIX News, Contemporary Sociology, American Historical Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Winterthur Portfolio, New York History, Journal of Urban History

Merchant of Il lusion: James Rouse, America’s Salesman of the Businessman’s Utopia

Ohio State University Press

Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series

Dr. Zane Miller, Series Editor

Published in Cloth, February 2004

Reviewed in The Journal of American History, The Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore City Paper, Columbia Business Weekly, YPB Library Services Core 1000 List for Academic Libraries, Choice (Recommended), Journal of Planning Literature, Professional Geographer, Journal of Utopian Studies, Kentucky Regional History, Journal of Planning History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Planning Perspectives, Journal of Urban History

Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream

Ohio State University Press

Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series

Dr. Zane Miller, Series Editor

Published in Cloth and Paper, July 2001

Reviewed in Reason, The National Catholic Reporter, The Journal of American History, H-Urban, H-DC, The American Historical Review, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Design History, Harvard Design Magazine, Journal of Urban History

American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition

Co-Editor with J. Mark Souther

Center for American Places Press/Columbia College

Distributed by University of Chicago Press

Published in Cloth, April, 2012, 35 essays, 75 images

Choice, Journal of American Culture

Adventures into Mexico: American Tourism Beyond the Border Jaguar Series on Latin America

Colin MacLachan and William Beezley, Series Editors

Scholarly Resources (SR) Books Division

(SR purchased by Rowman and Littlefield)

Published in Cloth and Paper, March 2006

Reviewed in the Heraldo de Mexico (Mexico edition of the Miami Herald,), Social and Cultural Geography, Pacific Historical Review, Reference and Research Book News, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, H-Travel

Articles

“Myth #4: High-Rise Tower in the Park Housing Developments are Unmanageable,” in Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy (Cornell University Press), Projected publication, 2015

“Learning from New York: America’s Alternative High-Rise Public Housing Model,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 78, Issue 4, 2012, 5800 words “Faneuil Hall Marketplace,” American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition (Center for American Places Press, 2012) 3000 words “Cities in the Garden: American New Towns and Landscape Planning,” in Michel Conan and Chen Wangheng, Editors. Gardens, City Life and Culture: A World Tour. (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks and Harvard University Press) and co-published by Wuhan University Press, China, Published 2007, 6000 words, (Translated, Chinese) "Public Life as Consumerism: American Businessmen Revolutionize Suburban Commerce," Yearbook of Economic History, 2005, Alexander Siedlemier, Editor, (Akademie Verlag Press, Berlin), Published 2006, 9345 words “New Towns are Not Suburbs: The Obstacles to American Garden City Planning,” Annales De la Recherche Urbaine, Volume Number 98,"Actualité des Villes Nouvelles," (French Government, Paris), Published 2006, 3000 words, (Translated, French) “To Be Served and Loved: The American Sense of Place in San Miguel de Allende,” Adventures into Mexico: American Tourism Beyond the Border, SR Books Division, Jaguar Series on Latin America (Rowman and Littlefield), Published 2006, 10,728 words “The Federal Icarus: The Public Rejection of 1970s National Suburban Planning,” The Journal of Urban History (Sage Publications) Volume 28 No. 1, November 2001, 16 Pages

Book Reviews Review of Roberta Gold, When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing (University of Illinois Press, 2014) and Amy L. Howard, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), American Historical Review, In Progress, Fall 2014  Review of Jan Logemann, Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2012), Journal of American History, December 2013 Review of Matthew Gordon Lasner, High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century (Yale University Press. 2012), American Historical Review, October 2013 Review of Themis Chronopoulos, Spatial Regulation in New York City (Oxford, 2011) and Suleiman Osman, The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn (Routledge, 2011), Social History, 2013 Review of Samuel Zipp, Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (Yale, 2010), Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews (Sage), Fall 2011 Review of Jonathan Soffer, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York (Columbia University Press, 2010), Enterprise and Society (Oxford University Press), Fall 2012 Review of Howard Gillette, Civitas By Design: Building Better Communities from the Garden City to the New Urbanism (University of Pennsylvania Press), Planning Perspectives, Fall 2011 Review of Jeffrey Hardwick, Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), Urban History (Cambridge University Press), Fall 2010 Review of Douglas Knerr, Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation (Ohio State University Press, 2005), Indiana Magazine of History (University of Indiana), Fall 2010 Review of Michael Allan Wolf, The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler (University Press of Kansas), Business History Review (Harvard Business School), Summer 2010 Review Essay of Eric Mumford, The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (Cambridge: MIT, 2002); Anthony Alofsin, The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape

Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard (New York: Norton, 2002); Christiane Crasemann Collins, Werner Hegemann and the Search for Universal Urbanism (New York: Norton, 2005); Alice Sparberg Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 2006); and Kenneth Kolson, Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design (Baltimore: Hopkins, 2001) for the Journal of Planning History, Volume 7, Number 1, February 2008, 3000 words Review of The New Suburban History, Editors Kevin Kruse and Thomas Sugrue (University of Chicago Press), Journal of American History, March 2007, Vol. 93, No. 4 Review of Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics (Cambridge University Press), Business History Review (Harvard Business School), Winter, 2005 Review of Andrew Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press), Journal of American History, January 2005 Review of Richard Hogan, The Failure of Planning (Ohio State University Press), Planning Perspectives: An International Journal of History, Planning and the Environment (Routledge), April 2005 Review of Becky Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (University of Chicago Press), American Historical Review, Volume 108, No. 1, February 2003 Encyclopedia Entries “Fair Deal,” in Melvyn Dubofsky, Editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Economic, Business, and Labor History (Oxford University Press, 2013), 500 words “New Towns,” in Andrew T. Carswell, Editor, The Encyclopedia of Housing, 2nd Edition (SAGE Publications, 2012), 3000 words “Public Housing,” in Philip VanderMeer and Donald Critchlow, Editors, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political, Policy, and Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2012), 700 words “Suburbanization of Leisure,” The Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America (Scribner’s, 2004) 3000 words

Conference Activities “Local Transit/Global Airport: Mismatch at Idlewild,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference, Toronto, Ontario, October 2013 Roundtable Panelist, “Public Housing Myths,” Urban History Association Conference, New York, New York, October 2012 Panel Chair, "The Consequences of Leisure and Tourist Spaces on Cities and Suburbs,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History, National Planning History Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2011 Panel Convener, “Anchor Institutions and the Modern Metropolis,” and Presenter, “Bad Altitude: How New York Anchored JFK International,” Urban History Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2010 Panel Commentator, "The Ambiguities of the American Planned Community: Lessons from Levittown, Sun City, and Irvine," The Diverse Suburb Conference, Hofstra University, Garden City, Long Island, October 2009 Panel Commentator, “In a New York State of Mind: Planners and Politicians Get Down to Business,” American Historical Association Conference, New York, New York, January 2009 “James Rouse and the Hartford Process: Race, Privatization, and the Limits of Metropolitan Reform,” 13th International Planning History Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 2008 Panel Commentator, “The Law, Politics, and Planning in American Cities and Suburbs,” 12th National Conference on Planning History, Portland, Maine, October 2007 “Reassessing Robert Moses' Influence on New York City's Public Housing,” presented at the conference entitled Robert Moses: New Perspectives on the Master Builder, Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University, New York, March 2007 Panel Convener, “Revisiting the Superblock: Was Design Destiny?” and Presenter, “Intensive Care for Superblocks: The NYCHA Story,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference, Coral Gables, Florida, October 2005 “Issues in Design and Long-Term Management in Public Housing: Lessons from the Massive and Successful New York City Housing Authority,” Conference on Social Policy as if People Matter, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, November 2004

Presenter, “A Silk Purse from a Sow's Ear: How the New York City Authority (NYCHA) Saved Public Housing,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 2004 Panel Convener, “The Post-War New Deal: Reengineering New York’s Neighborhoods” and Presenter, “The Benefits of Big Government: How the New York City Housing Authority Managed Tower Public Housing,” Urban History Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2004 Moderator, 7th Annual Environmental Conference, Tulane University Law School, Panel on “Sustainable Cities: Rebuilding the Urban Environment,” New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2001 Panel Commentator and Chair, “New Orleans,” Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, October 2000 “Planned to Fail: Federal Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Suburban Development,” Presented at the American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, January 2000 “Suburban Alchemy: New Towns and the Cultural Transformation of Suburbia,” Presented at the 8th International Planning History Society Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1998 Invited Presentations “Restart NYCHA City/No Cash Subsidy Housing,” Paying for Public Housing Roundtable of the Institute for Urban Design, New York, June 2014 Panelist, “Public Housing: A Total Reset,” Institute for Public Architecture, New York, March 2014 Panelist, “Rethinking Public Housing,” Resilient Cities Housing Initiative,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, November 2013 Invited Speaker: “Affordable New York: The Long View,” Columbia University Seminar on the City, New York, November 2013 Keynote Address, Annual Meeting, New York State Public Housing Authority Director’s Association, New York, October 2013 Guest Lecture, “The Fight for the Soul of JFK International,” Society of Architectural Historians and the NYU Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies, New York, May 2013

Panelist, New York Housing History (with Peter Eisenstadt and Fritz Umbach), Gotham Center for New York City History, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 2011 Panelist, “Penn South: The New History,” Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY), New York, February 2011 Guest Lecture, “New York Public Housing: The Global Perspective,” NYU-Polytechnic, New York, November 2010 Keynote, “The History of Social Services at the New York City Housing Authority,” New York City Housing Authority Social Services Department, Henry Street Settlement, New York, September 2009 Panelist (with Kenneth T. Jackson and Lisa Keller), “The Resilient City,” Museum of the City of New York, New York, April 2009 Invited Speaker, “Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century,” Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University, New York, January 2009

Panelist, NYCHA and Educational Outcomes, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Furman Center, New York University, New York, November 2008

Panelist, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of Architecture, New York, November 2008 Invited Speaker, “Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century,” Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, September 2008 Invited Speaker, “Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2008 Panelist, “A Roof Over Our Heads: How Will New York Save Its Public Housing?” Center for New York City Affairs, New School University, New York, October 2007 Invited Speaker, “Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century,” Milano Graduate School, New School University, New York, October 2007 “Defining Moments in NYCHA History,” Annual Meeting of the New York City Housing Authority Directors, Museum of the City of New York, New York, April 2006 Panelist, “Housing in New York City,” New York City Teacher’s Sabbatical History Class, Dr. Richard Lieberman, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, May 2005, December

2005, December 2006, December 2007, December 2008 Invited Speaker, “Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse, America’s Salesman of the Businessman’s Utopia,” Milano Graduate School, New School University, New York, May 2005 Invited Speaker, “A Formula for Authenticity: The Strange Transformation of the Festival Marketplaces,” American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Forum 2004, New Orleans, December 2004 Featured Guest, "The Life and Legacy of James Rouse," University of Baltimore, sponsored by The Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities and The Society for Urban and Regional Planning History, Baltimore, December 2004 Invited Presentation, “1960s New Towns,” American Planning History Seminar, University of New Orleans School of Urban and Public Affairs, New Orleans, October 2002 Other Publications or Reports Film Review, Lost Rivers, H-Environment, Fall 2014 Guest Critic, Pratt School of Architecture, Fall 2014 Guest Critic, CCNY School of Architecture, Masters Design Studio, 2014 Tour Leader, Urban History Association Meeting, Columbia University, 2012 Prize Committee, Urban History Association, Best Article (2012, 2013) Guest Speaker, Stuyvesant High School, History of NYC, (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) Guest Critic, Housing Studio, NYIT School of Architecture Tour Leader, SACRPH, National Planning History Conference, Baltimore, 2011 Guest Critic, Tulane University School of Architecture, 2002, 2003 Collins Diboll, Commissioned Biography, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2003 Review of Douglas Brinkley’s Wheels for the World in the New Orleans Times Picayune, April 2003 Quoted in The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Baltimore City Paper, City Hall, The Atlantic Monthly (Cities Blog), Brooklyn Rail, Urban Omnibus, The Christian Science Monitor, and other periodicals. Radio and Television interviews include WPIX-TV (New York), WNYC (New York), SInovision, CUNY TV (BrianLehrertv.com), WYPR (Baltimore), and Chicago Public Media. Public Housing History/Expert Opinion: City of New York, Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Affairs; Community Board 7; CORO Program; Industrial Areas Foundation; LaGuardia Wagner Archive, NYC; Manhattan Borough President; McKinsey and Company; Museum of the City of New York; National Public Housing Museum; New York City Housing Authority, Chairman and Public Affairs; Senate Majority Counsel, New York State Senate.

Manuscript Review Pacific Historical Review (Article, 2014)

Journal of Urban History (Article, 2014)

Columbia University Press (Book Proposal, 2014)

Journal of American History (Article, 2014)

Journal of the American Planning Association (Article, 2013)

Buildings and Landscape (Article, 2013)

Journal of Planning History (2012)

Yale University Press (Book, 2012)

Palgrave Macmillan (Book, 2011)

Michigan Historical Review (Article, 2011)

Temple University Press (Book, 2011)

University of Massachusetts Press (Book Proposal, 2010)

Journal of Urban History (Article, 2010)

Journal of Transport and Land Use (Article, 2010)

Journal of Urban Affairs (Article, 2010)

Journal of Urban History (2 Articles, 2009)

Cornell University Press (Book, 2009)

University of Pennsylvania Press (Book Proposal, 2008)

Oxford University Press (Book Proposal, 2008)

University of Texas Press (Book, 2008)

Center for American Places Press (Book, 2007)

Journal of American History (Article, 2006)

University of Pennsylvania Press (Book, 2004)

Planning Perspectives (Article, 2003)

Ohio State University Press (Book, 2003)

Editorials Editorial, “Culture War on the Hudson,” Newsday, May 2012

Editorial, “Looks Matter,” (Tappan Zee Bridge Replacement), Newsday, February 2012

Editorial, “Why Sonia Sotomayor Shouldn’t Have to Apologize,” HNN, August 2009

“Ask About the City Housing Authority,” The New York Times City Room Blog, January 2009

Editorial, “Can Private Methods Save Public Housing?” Gotham Gazette, December 2008

Editorial, “Public Housing Has a Future,” History News Network, September 2008

Editorial, “Preserving Public Housing That Works,” Gotham Gazette, June 2008

Editorial, “Let’s not jump on the light rail fad,” Times Picayune, October 2002

Editorial, “Violence shreds our social fabric,” Times Picayune, June 2002

Editorial, “Reflecting on a missed opportunity in 2002,” Times Picayune, December 2002

Courses at the New York Institute of Technology, 2003-2014 Beyond Shelter: Housing, Social Processes, and Community Development (Blended Version) Modern New York, Social Science Seminar (Traditional, Blended, and Online Versions) Great Cities Past and Present, Social Science Seminar (Traditional, Online, and Blended Versions) The Real New York: Sociology and the City, Behavioral Science Seminar (Traditional, Online, and Blended Versions) Interdisciplinary Studies 410: The City as an Interdisciplinary Subject (Traditional and Online Versions) Interdisciplinary Studies 310: Tourism Studies as an Interdisciplinary Subject (Traditional and Online Versions) New York State History American History I American History II Contemporary World Foundations of Inquiry

Courses at New York University-Polytechnic School of Engineering, 2011-2014 The Real New York Affordable Housing Introduction to Urban Planning (multiple sections) History of New York City Infrastructure Courses at Tulane University, 2000-2003 Cities and the Urban Environment American Urbanism The Suburban Environment U.S. Urban History The American Suburban Dream The Twentieth Century City American Utopias American Tourism Professional Honors, Prizes, and Fellowships 2000-2001 Newcomb College Mortar Board Award for Outstanding Teaching, Tulane

University 1997-1998 Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Brandeis University Graduate School 1993-1997 Crown Fellow, Brandeis University Department of History 1991 Wingra Fellow, University of Wisconsin Arboretum 1991 Senior Thesis Prize, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History 1990 Knapp Brittingham Summer Honors Research Grant, University of

Wisconsin-Madison Grants, Fellowships, and Contracts 2014: Ford Foundation/International Institute of Education, $5000, for Affordable Housing in New York City: Triumph, Challenge, and Opportunity New York State Council for the Arts, $10000, for Affordable Housing in New York City 2009: ISRC Grant, $3000, for JFK International Research 2008: ISRC Grant, $6037, for JFK International Research 2007: ISRC Grant, $1800, for Social Analysis in Twentieth Century Design 2006: ISRC Grant, $4758, for Public Housing That Worked 2004: ISRC Grant, $5210, for Public Housing That Worked 2003: ISRC Grant, $2810, for Public Housing That Worked

Selected University Service

Senator, NYIT Academic Senate (2003-Present) NYIT Academic Senate: Curriculum, Assessment, Budget, and Academic Standards Committees (multiple years) Member, 2030 Core Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (2005-2010) Member, SOURCE (Symposium of University Research and Creative Expression) Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (multiple years) Chair and Organizer, Interdisciplinary Conference, “New York: Divided Metropolis”; Keynote: David Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center), 2008 Chair and Organizer, Interdisciplinary Conference, “New York City: Global Village"; Keynote; Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago), 2007 Co-Chair and Organizer, Interdisciplinary Conference, “New York: City in Motion”; Keynote: Kenneth T. Jackson (Columbia), 2006