Michael Barry Katz

From the Urban History Association:

...[What] makes him and his work really special is how unbounded he was by this or any other rubric. He was an urban historian in the broadest imaginable sense of the term—tracking historical, moral, ethical, and political issues wherever they led, through whatever means and methods—a point amply demonstrated through the sequence of landmark major books among the 21 volumes he wrote or edited over a long career.

Frisch, Michael, "Michael B. Katz: An Appreciation," (2014)