Foglesong earned his M.A. in urban affairs and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago, where he was a Ford Foundation Urban Fellow.[1] He began his teaching career at Amherst College, and joined Rollins College in 1984.[2] In 1990, he went on leave from Rollins to take a temporary appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles, as the Harvey Perloff Professor of Urban Planning.[3] He retired in 2018.[2]
Books
Foglesong's books include:
Planning the Capitalist City: The Colonial Era to the 1920s (Princeton University Press, 1986)[4]
Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando (Yale University Press, 2001)[5]
Immigrant Prince: Mel Martinez and the American Dream (University Press, of Florida, 2011)[6]
Clark, Jim (Winter 2004), The Florida Historical Quarterly, 82 (3): 410–412, JSTOR30149549{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Elazar, Daniel J. (Summer 1988), The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 19 (1): 162–164, doi:10.2307/204259, JSTOR204259{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Fainstein, Norman (September 1987), American Journal of Sociology, 93 (2): 457–459, doi:10.1086/228756, JSTOR2779596{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)