CEWS Profile: Christine Boyer

Christine Boyer is a Professor at the School of Architecture, Princeton University. She is an urban historian whose interests include the history of the American city, city planning, preservation planning, and computer science. Previously, Professor Boyer was professor and chair of the City and Regional Planning Program at Pratt Institute. She has written extensively about American urbanism. Her publications include Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning 1890–1945 (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1983), Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850–1900 (New York: Rizzoli, 1985), The City of Collective Memory (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), and CyberCities (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996). She has also written numerous articles and book chapters that explore urban space and the representation of cityscapes.