Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape

Francesca Russello Ammon ’98 draws on her research of the built environment in her first book, Bulldozer (Yale University Press). This first-ever history of the bulldozer traces the machine from its use as a military weapon to essential tool and source of many problems in the rapid industrial growth post-Word War II.  Ammon is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania of city and regional planning and historic preservation.