Research Interests

Rosemary Wakeman is the author of Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse 1945-1975 (Harvard University Press, 1998) and The Heroic City: Paris in the 1950s to be published by the University of Chicago Press. She is also editor of Themes in Modern European History, 1945 to the Present (Routledge, 2003). Wakeman writes regularly for the Revue Urbanisme, most recently a special dossier on New York with Thierry Paquot (no. 350, 2006). She has published numerous articles on urban history and on cities, including a recent special issue of French Politics, Culture & Society on “The Renovation of Les Halles” in Paris (Summer 2007). She also co-edited (with Charles Rearick) a special issue on Paris for French Historical Studies (Winter 2004). She writes frequently on urban waterfronts and is currently working on an article about the redevelopment of Mission Bay in San Francisco. She has addressed the World Bank and various non-profit and professional associations on Sustainable Cities. Her current project is a trans-national study of the New Town Movement in Europe and the United States.

Professor Wakeman is also Director of the Urban Studies Program at Fordham University. She teaches courses on the European City, Maritime Cities, the Social History of Architecture, and on 20th Century Europe. She also teaches as an Invited Professor at the Institut d'urbanisme de Paris at the University of Paris XII.