From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City by Nathan Glazer (Princeton University Press, 292 pages, $24.95)

Nathan Glazer's new book is a reminder of how distant even the recent past can seem. From a Cause to a Style collects 11 essays that were mostly written in the 1990s yet continue to reflect a disillusionment with modernist architecture rooted in the 1960s.