Faculty Robert M. Fogelson Professor of History and Urban Studies Professor Robert M. Fogelson is an American urban historian who received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1958 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964. He has taught at MIT since 1968. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and in the Faculty of History. He is the author of several books on urban history and urban affairs, most recently Downtown: Its Rise and Fall: 1880-1950 (2001). His new book, which will be published by Yale University Press in Fall 2005, is Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930. He is currently working on a book on rent wars in New York City, 1918-1929.         77 Massachusetts Avenue Building 9-639 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-1671 foge@mit.edu   MIT History Faculty Home Copyright 2000 © Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comments and questions to history-www@mit.edu