Come hear the author talk about his adventures.
As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman, the Architecture Critic for the New York Times, emailed a group of architects, historians, urban planners, landscape architects, writers and friends inviting them to take walks through our closed City to places which had meaning to them and illuminated the City they loved.
The result is his new book,
The Intimate City, which is the “ultimate insider’s guide.”
It is a collective diary full of conversations with his companions on
these walking tours, including historical tidbits, law, technology, gossip, from the origins of “Mannahatta,” to Greenwich Village, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Harlem, Broadway, Museum Mile, Rockefeller Center, the Midtown Skyscrapers, Queens, Forest Hills, etc., etc.
Walking the empty neighborhoods, reflecting on its bones and history renewed his belief in the firm foundations on which the spirit of the City endures – and the resilience which has led it to conquer many calamities before.
"The Intimate City is a joyful miscellany of people seeing things in the urban landscape, the streets alive with remembrances and ideas even when those streets are relatively empty of people.” (NY Times)
Our presenter:
Michael Kimmelman is the Architecture Critic of the New York Times. He was also the paper’s chief Art Critic. From Berlin, where he was for several years, he created the Abroad column covering politics and culture across Europe and the Middle East. He has reported from more than 40 countries. He has been twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.