PETER EKMAN

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PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2021. “From Prophecy to Projection: The New York Metropolitan Region Study and the Rescaling of the Urban Future, 1956–1968,” Planning Perspectives 36(1): 147–182.
2021. “‘This Scene Is Itself Living’: Buildings as Landscapes in Transatlantic Human Geography, 1870–1970,” History of the Human Sciences 34 (3–4): 336–361.
2016. “Diagnosing Suburban Ruin: A Prehistory of Mumford’s Postwar Jeremiad,” Journal of Planning History 15(2): 108–128.
2015. “‘A Town Should Be Built to Make the Whole Thing Work’: Modeling Patterson, City Beautiful of California’s Central Valley,” Journal of Urban History 41(3): 460–478.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
2023. "Sequencing Like a State: Ciudad Guayana and the Infrastructures of Arrival," in Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds, eds. Jean-Paul Addie, Michael Glass, and Jen Nelles (Bristol: Bristol University Press, forthcoming).
2022. “‘This Scene Is Itself Living’: Human Geography and the Ecologies of Dwelling,” in Landscapes of Housing: Design and Planning in the History of Environmental Thought, ed. Jeanne Haffner (New York: Routledge), 13–38.
 
BOOK REVIEWS
2020. Review of Garage, by Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela, in Buildings and Landscapes 27(2): 112–115.
2019. Review of The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition, by Jamin Creed Rowan, in Historical Geography 46: 345–348.
2015. Review of Refrains for Moving Bodies: Experience and Experiment in Affective Spaces, by Derek P. McCormack, in Social & Cultural Geography 16: 998–999.
2014. Review of Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities from the Garden City to the New Urbanism, by Howard Gillette, Jr., in Urban Geography 35: 1105–1106.
2014. Review of Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race, by Dianne Harris, in Cultural Geographies 21: 167–168.
2013. Review of Building a Market: The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914–1960, by Richard Harris, in Historical Geography 41: 198–200.
 
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION AND UNDER REVIEW
“Forgetting the Future Metropolis: History, Inference, and Disavowal at the Harvard–MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1956–1976” (in revisions for Modern Intellectual History).
"'This Fluid Situation': Sequencing the Cybernetic Highway at Ciudad Guayana, 1961–1966" (under review at Journal of Historical Geography).
“Landscape, Life, and Things: On Some Unthought Geographies of Georg Simmel.”
"Corner, Basement, Garage: Reused Spaces and Vernacular Sounds in Metropolitan America, 1945–1985."

BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Timing the Future Metropolis: Planning, Knowledge, and Disavowal in America's Postwar Urbanism (under review).

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
2021. "Projecting 'Spread City': The New York Metropolitan Region Study and Its Critics," Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, February 11.
2020. "'Radburn Rackets': Robert D. Kohn and Marjorie Sewell Cautley's Sketches Against the Speculative Suburb," PLATFORM, July 6.


CONFERENCE PAPERS
Versions of the above delivered to the American Association of Geographers, Urban History Association, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, International Conference of Historical Geographers, Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Regional Studies Association, Society for the History of Recent Social Science, and other audiences.

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