Thomas J. Sugrue is a professor of social and cultural analysis and history at New York University, where he also directs the NYU Cities Collaborative. His eight books include the Bancroft Prize–winning history of Detroit, The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Princeton University Press, 1996), and, most recently, with Andrew J. Diamond, Neoliberal Cities (NYU Press, 2020).
Thomas J. Sugrue
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Preexisting Conditions: What 2020 Reveals about Our Urban Future
Crisis Cities brings together some of the world’s leading social scientists and humanists to grapple with the 2020 crises of our cities.
The Big Picture: America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief
On a clear day, from his 68th-floor penthouse on Fifth Avenue, President Trump can survey America’s greatest metropolis. To the west is a glass-and-steel forest of luxury towers bordering Central Park and Columbus Circle, where international magnates park their capital in extravagant luxury condominiums. To the east are celebrity architect–designed high rises that have recently […]
What Next for Detroit?
One of the most important urban photographers of our time, Camilo José Vergara arrived in the United States in the midst of the “urban crisis,” as great American cities struggled with massive deindustrialization and commercial disinvestment, deep racial segregation, and intense street-level protests and violence. In 1970, Vergara, working as an audio-visual assistant for an […]
