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 Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930 (Yale University Press, 2005). He is currently working on a two-part book on the early history of rent control in New York City. The first part, circa 1917 to 1921, deals with the origins , legislative history, and constitutionality of wht were known as the emergency rent laws. The second part, 1920-1929, deals with the implementation, politics, and expiration of these laws.         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