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About James Wunsch
I am Emeritus Professor of Historical and Education Studies at SUNY Empire State. For the past few years, I solicited and edited upwards of fifty reviews of books in urban history for The Metropole , the blog of the Urban History Association. I am presently serving as staff volunteer to the head of acquisitions at the New York Society Library. I have written scholarly and popular publications including the Journal of Urban History.James Wunsch is Emeritus Professor of Historical and Educational Studies at SUNY Empire State.
NBN Episodes hosted by James:
September 24, 2026
Key to the City
For those concerned with how city hall can shape the look and feel of a neighborhood, the mere mention of zoning may invite denunciation of zoning pra…
September 11, 2026
Dwelling on Earth
In Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home (Norton, 2026), the architect and urban planner Stefan Al asks–– where is a good …
April 25, 2026
Modern New York
In Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Today (Rizzoli, 2023), Lukas Novotny calls attention not j…
October 22, 2025
The New Suburbia
The adoption of the Hart-Celler Act in 1965, triggered a wave of immigration to the U.S. not seen since before the First World War. But these newcomer…
June 27, 2025
Damnation Island
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two pris…
June 19, 2024
Emergent Tokyo
If ancient Kyoto stands for orderly elegance, then Tokyo, within the world’s most populated metropolitan area, calls to mind–– jam-packed chaos. But i…
August 13, 2023
Tenements, Towers & Trash
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017) is a comically illustrated chronicle o…
March 7, 2023
Lilly
Lilly: The First Latina Rockette (Lilly Enterprises, 2021) is the improbable story of a Puerto Rican toddler, confined by her father for 15 years to …