- 352 pages
- English
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About this book
Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He looks at what has happened to Ground Zero, as a place of memory has been reconstructed by "staritects" and turned into malls. The city, he suggests, has to be reimagined from the street up on a human scale, to develop new ways to revitalise neighbourhoods.
Alongside these essays on New York, Sorkin also brings his lifetime's experience as an architect to bear. He talks of the joy of observing a city in order to understand it. Why a young designer must learn to draw by hand rather than only use a computer. There are also personal encounters with some of the greatest names who have changed the city. Sorkin gets lost in Rio with Zaha Hadid and talks about the old Bronx with Marshall Berman.
Alongside these essays on New York, Sorkin also brings his lifetime's experience as an architect to bear. He talks of the joy of observing a city in order to understand it. Why a young designer must learn to draw by hand rather than only use a computer. There are also personal encounters with some of the greatest names who have changed the city. Sorkin gets lost in Rio with Zaha Hadid and talks about the old Bronx with Marshall Berman.
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Index
1 percent, 5, 113, 151, 315
9/11 (2001), 56, 73, 105, 147, 299
9/11 Memorial, 48, 56, 142
9/11 Museum, 57
abortion clinics, 137, 239
Abromovic, Marina, 266
Abu Dhabi, 27, 36
Abzug, Bella, 154
adAPT NYC, 98
Adelson, Sheldon, 137
ADPSR (Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility), 239
affordable housing, 23, 67, 70–71, 80–86, 88–90, 99, 117, 119, 120, 152, 161–7, 274, 333
Africa, 93, 252, 280, 308
African Americans, 249, 252
Ai Weiwei, 289
Alexander, Chris, 262
Alinsky, Saul, 250
Allure Group, 159
American Civil Liberties Union, 137
American Institute of Architects, 239, 311, 332, 335
Amtrak, 133, 135
Angotti, Tom, 71
anti-Semitism, 300
apartheid, 92, 238
Arabic, 86
Arab Spring, 40
Arad, Michael, 58
Arad, Ron, 320
Architectural Graphic Standards, 195
Area Median Income (AMI), 89
Arendt, Hannah, 225
Aristotle, 64, 280
Art Institute of Chicago, 267
Art Students League, 121–2
Asia, 274, 275, 292
assemblage, 126–7, 202, 234
Atlantic (magazine), 99
Aureli, Pier Vittorio, 306
Auschwitz, 227, 238
Austria, 222, 327
Linz, 221
Vienna, 82, 220, 221, 325–6
Awlaki, Anwar al-, 176
Axelrod, David, 252
Azerbaijan, 343
Baer, Steve, 207
Bain Capital, 195
Banki, Shira, 321
Barnes Collection, 76–7
Baroque, 189, 280, 297, 304
Battista, Vi...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- New York, New York, New York
- Elsewhere and Otherwise
- In Memoriam
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Credits
- Index