#45

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- Samuel Medina
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- Chloe Wyma
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- Nicolas Kemper
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- Nicholas Raap
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- Laura Coombs
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- Seth Thompson
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- Sean C. Suchara
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- C. W. Moss & Pete Gamlen
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- Emma Schneider & Michael Piantini
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Articles

Care after Covid

New York’s landmarks legislation is more invested in preserving a particular image of the city than the possibility of life within it.

My longing for LOMEX occupies a kind of double counterfactual—what if, but what if not in that way—not wholly dissimilar from Rudolph’s own.

Personifications of pure, uncut genius square up against philistinism and its legion of jowly middlemen.

On January 5, Doctor Kathy Hochul finally gave New York its gogo juice, prescribing a bitter pill known as congestion pricing to clear its clogged passages and stimulate its mass transit system.

To have Jane Jacobs, we need to go beyond Jane Jacobs.

A view of the world, from Greenwich Village
Reviews
Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy was on view at The Shed from November 20, 2024, to March 16 in Hudson Yards.
Audiences expected the Drake-sired respawn of Luna Luna to be fun. In fact, it was a memorial to fun.
Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC by Owen Hatherley. Repeater, 218 pp., $17.
An attack on New York’s city planning orthodoxy, in the guise of a guidebook
If we want to understand today’s prevailing ideas in design, we should look, not up at buildings, but down at our feet.
An Anarchitectural Body of Work: Suzanne Harris and the Downtown New York Artists’ Community in the 1970s by Friederike Schäfer. De Gruyter, 400 pp. $76.
Sifting through the spoofable pedantry of An Anarchitectural Body of Work reveals Suzanne Harris, intrepid multipotentialite.
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior by Olga Touloumi. University of Minnesota Press, 312 pp., $35.
Sensitive to the subtle interplay of sound and space, Olga Touloumi’s self-consciously novel study of the United Nations offers an unintended material history of internationalism’s hollow performance.