Areas of Research/Interest: Urban development and political economy; the sociology of architecture, design, and consumption; environmental degradation; mechanisms of interactional inequalities.

Select Publications:

Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come to Be as They Are.  New York and London: Routledge (2003).

"Dealing with Urban Terror:  Heritages of Control, Varieties of Intervention, Strategies of Research." (with Noah McClain), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 27.3 (September: 679-98) 2003. 

"History Repeats Itself, but How?: City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place." (with William Freudenburg and Krista Paulsen), American Sociological Review, vol. 65 (December: 791-823) 2000. 

Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (with John Logan).Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1987.