Here are a few of my publications.
A history of Ohio’s oldest, continually operating public market. The book explores the history of this downtown Cincinnati market, using it as a lens to explain U.S. urban history. It covers major developments in urban America—industrialization, immigration, white flight, federal urban policy, recent city revitalizations, and our current problems of gentrification.
Buy online at Arcadia Publishing, Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.
See a review of the book in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
See my blog post on the book for the Congress for the New Urbanism.
This is a history of the movement against the William H. Zimmer nuclear power plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. Built in the 1970s and abandoned in 1984 due to major safety and cost concerns, Zimmer met this fate in part because of community opposition. At its peak, the anti-Zimmer movement included 20,000 people from Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. In this way, it joined many other contested nuclear power plants in the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, similarly cancelled or converted because of major protest over safety and money issues.
The book explores this groundswell of local activism, people’s relationship with federal regulators, and the state of nuclear power and energy in recent decades.
Cincinnati’s park board was created in 1908 and has been managing the city’s parks ever since. Commissioned by Preserve Burnet Woods and funded by the Stephen H. Wilder Foundation, this public report explores the history of the park board and assesses how its members have and have not been advocates for natural conservation and sustainability—critical questions in the age of climate change.
Check it out here on the Preserve Burnet Woods’ website.
Here more about it here on WVXU Cincinnati Edition or here at a Woman's City Club forum on the park board.
Kunst Magazine (2015-2016)
Limited edition print magazine about the craftsmanship required to preserve our cities.
Press coverage of Kunst Magazine—“Magazine & website to highlight art and craftsmanship in historic building renovations,” Soapbox Cincinnati, June 9, 2015.