Dundee - A City in Transition was one of Joseph McKenzie's largest studies extending to over 10,000 negatives. The study included numerous smaller essays including Hawkhill - Death of a living community; Women of Dundee; The City; People in Jute; Men & Locomotives; Death of a Station and Joseph McKenzie was also commissioned by William Fairhurst to photograph the Building of the Tay Road Bridge. The commission included McKenzie being suspended in the open door of an RAF Westland helicopter and taking aerial photographs of the bridge and surrounding areas. The exhibition was shown as part of the celebratory opening of the Tay Road Bridge in August 1966.
McKenzie continued to photograph around Dundee until 1986 and his study is considered one of the most extensive and comprehensive records of change to a British city undertaken by a solitary artist.