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Buckminster Fuller thought he had found the shape of utopia. What went wrong?

Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.

Keeping up appearances in brownstone Brooklyn

Wrecking Ball

The higher the New York observatory experience climbs, the dumber it gets.

Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.

  • Mapping Malcolm, edited by Najha Zigbi-Johnson. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 304 pp., $28.

Mapping Malcolm takes Harlem as a starting place for a global project of Black liberation.

  • Jenny Holzer: Light Line, organized by Lauren Hinkson, is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through September 29.

At the Guggenheim, Jenny Holzer presides over a crumbling Babel of mixed messages.

  • Life and Trust, by Emursive, is currently running at 20 Exchange Place.

Life and Trust occupies Wall Street with craft cocktails and prebatched bromides.

  • Manor Lords, published by Greg Styczeń (a.k.a. Slavic Magic) and distributed by Hooded Horse, was released in April.

If Sim City arguably inspired legions of thirtysomething urban planners, there’s a strong chance Manor Lords will make at least one good historian of the medieval peasantry.

Skyline!

Skyline

Morningside Heights — Sting’s affected holiness—endemic among British pop singers of the Live Aid generation—was a natural fit.
Chelsea — “By the time you’ve discussed it with your editor, it’s definitely not stream-of-consciousness.”
MEATPACKING DISTRICT — Liza Sylvestre described the space of the caption as “crip space,” open to the subjectivity of experience and expanded authorship.
LAGUARDIA PLACE — “The nature of the problem is power-driven and political.”