Twenty minutes in Manhattan
Material type: TextPublication details: New York North Point Press 2013Description: 258 p. illustrations 21 cmISBN:- 9780865477575
- Sorkin, Michael, 1948- -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
- Architecture and society -- New York (State) -- New York
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- ARCHITECTURE / Criticism
- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- 720.974741 23 SO-T
- SOC026030 | ARC001000 | ARC010000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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OPJGU Sonepat- Campus | General Books | Main Library | 720.974741 SO-T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 12/05/2024 | 141229 |
Originally published: London : Reaktion, 2009.
The stairs -- The stoop -- The block -- Washington Square -- LaGuardia Place -- Soho -- Canal Street -- Tribeca -- 145 Hudson Street -- Alternative routes -- Esprit d'Escalier.
""This is the most brilliant epitome of Manhattan ever written." --Mike Davis Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks from his apartment in Greenwich Village to his office in Tribeca. Unlike most commuters, Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he doesn't try to drown out his surroundings. Instead, he's always paying attention. As he descends the narrow stairs of his town house, Sorkin explains why New York doesn't have the grand stairwells so common in European apartment buildings. Stepping out onto his block, he imagines a better, more efficient, far less dirty way to dispose of garbage. As he crosses Canal Street, he remembers the mad proposals for tunnels, elevated highways, and mega-structures that threatened lower Manhattan and could have destroyed its urban fabric. Fifty years after Jane Jacobs's groundbreaking The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Sorkin's vision of city life is every bit as perceptive and fine-grained as that of Jacobs's classic. With important insights into history, architecture, and public policy, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan is an extraordinary, deeply personal look at a city undergoing--always undergoing--dramatic transformations"--
"A nonfiction book describing a walk from Greenwich Village to Tribeca, about urban life in New York City, written by an acclaimed architect and architectural critic"--
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