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The Automobile and the City

The Autonomobile and the City

Michael Sorkin
April 1, 2017
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Urban mobility in the future can liberate the street and transform it into a truly shared public place.


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Parametrics and Power

Parametrics and Power

How the social, economic, and political forces that impact architecture are moving to shape the future.
Michael Sorkin
September 1, 2016
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America is having a Frank Capra moment.


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Different Roads to Urbanization

Different Roads to Urbanization

Michael Sorkin
July 1, 2016
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Two excellent new books, Beyond the City, by Felipe Correa, director of the Urban Design Degree Program at Harvard University, and Dragons In Diamond Village, by David Bandurski, editor of the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong, offer contrasting but fascinatingly connected analyses of resource-extraction urbanism.


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Travels With Zaha

Travels With Zaha

A critic remembers a madcap Brazilian sojourn with Zaha Hadid.
Michael Sorkin
April 5, 2016
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A critic remembers a madcap Brazilian sojourn with Zaha Hadid.


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Too Rich, Too Skinny

A critic with an unlimited make-believe budget goes shopping for a lair at two of New York's new starchitect-designed high-rises.
Michael Sorkin
May 16, 2015
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A critic with an unlimited make-believe budget goes shopping for a lair at two of New York's new starchitect-designed high-rises.


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The Phantom Menace

MAD Architects' Ma Yansong has roiled the waters of Chicago's design scene with his proposal for George Lucas's museum. But does it really pose such a threat to the city's lakefront?
Michael Sorkin
January 16, 2015
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I've always been partial to architectural mountains—from the Mayans to Bruno Taut—so I was delighted to see the hilly design that Beijing-based MAD Architects has proposed for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago.


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al-Wakrah stadium by Zaha Hadid

The Architect's Dilemma: When to Say No

What are the factors—political, social, or environmental—that architects should consider when deciding if they should turn down or resign from a job?
Michael Sorkin
June 16, 2014
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What are the factors—political, social, or environmental—that architects should consider when deciding if they should turn down or resign from a job?
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Hudson Yards

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

It's time for New York and other cities to connect urban planning to social equity.
Michael Sorkin
January 16, 2014
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Dear Mayor Bill de Blasio: Along with many other architects and urbanists, I'm looking forward to your taking office this month as mayor of New York City, and working to implement the theme of your campaign, the elimination of the increasingly radical disparities that underlie that 'tale of two cities' you so frequently spoke about—a tale, increasingly, about two nations.
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Rumble in the Urban Jungle

Michael Sorkin
August 16, 2013
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A recent book by New Urbanist authors revives an old battle with Landscape Urbanism. Photo © Iwan Baan The High Line in New York, designed by James Corner Field Operations with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is criticized by Andres Duany for being too expensive and over-designed. It's hard to keep up with the musical deck chairs in the disciplines these days. The boundaries of architecture, city planning, urban design, landscape architecture, sustainability, computation, and other fields are shifting like crazy, and one result is endless hybridization–green urbanism begets landscape urbanism, which begets ecological urbanism, which begets agrarian urbanism–each “ism” claiming
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Andres Duany and Emily Talen Respond to Michael Sorkin's Review of Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City

Michael Sorkin
August 16, 2013
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Emily Talen, Co-editor, Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City Readers: Michael Sorkin sounds tired, and who can blame him? This master of critique has made a career out of eviscerating buildings, architects, fellow writers, and anyone who rubs him the wrong way. How unexpected of him to now propose a why-can't-we-all-get-along harmony when so many are already lying dead on the Sorkin battlefield. We too would like to move on from this old and distracting debate. Unfortunately, while Mr. Sorkin tries to reinvent himself as the great peacekeeper, billions are wasted on efforts to ruralize the city.
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