What Goes Up The Right and Wrongs to the City

Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he takes to task the public officials, developers, "civic" organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of Sorkin's beloved New York a city of glittering towers...

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Main Author: Sorkin, Michael 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Verso 2018
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