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Maligned and condemned, the Port Authority Bus Terminal will be missed after it’s gone.

At a time when socialism was widely considered a pejorative, Jacobin would be an outspoken champion on its behalf.

Wherever man spews his seed, there are rats indeed.

Mayne, after installing himself at the top of the masthead, identifies himself there not as editor but “instigator.”

What gave the best of OMA’s buildings their power was a lively, active intelligence that was at war, equally, with nostalgia and bourgeois taste.

The green reification of New York City’s waterfront

The Tenement Museum memorializes working-class families even as it evicts them.

Why this artist? Why now?

An atmosphere emerges of city life before its descent into the present monotony of glass façades and brushed steel.

The movement kept me engaged; the engagement softened into empathy.

Do they remember that they were once human?

Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.

Vivian Maier didn’t aim to exhaustively catalog her surroundings. What her work declares is that the ordinary cannot be exhausted.

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

The civic mainstays of childhood appeared in the form of friendly, cement-and-aggregate monsters.