Acknowledgments
Muller is a professor of history and the director of the urban studies program at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include the historical geography of American cities. He is coauthor, with John Bauman, of Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889–1943 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006) and editor of DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good (Ohio University Press, 2005).