Introduction 1
New York, New York, New York
1. Jane's Spectacles 17
2. New York Triptych 21
3. A Dozen Urgent Suggestions for the Village 25
4. NYU's Tipping Point 35
5. Occupying Wall Street 39
6. The Sidewalks of New York 43
7. Learning the Hard Way 46
8. Sandy 49
9. Ada Louise Huxtable 52
10. Ground Zero Sum 55
11. Marshall Berman 1940-2013 62
12. The Fungibility of Air 65
13. Big MoMA's House 73
14. What's behind the Poor Door 79
15. Ups and Downs 88
16. Little Boxes 95
17. Business as Usual 102
18. Big and Bigger 108
19. Another City 113
20. Sow's Ears 121
21. Lost at Sea 124
22. Getting Together 132
23. The Cathedral at Ground Zero 140
24. A New New York, the Same Old Story 148
25. Manhattan Transfer 153
26. Preserving People 168
Elsewhere and Otherwise
27. Need to Know? 175
28. A Reminiscence of Hollin Hills 179
29. Back to the Burbs 185
30. Architecture without Capitalism 194
31. Informal Formality 200
32. The Trials of Rafi Segal 211
33. Krier ♥ Speer 220
34. Rumble in the Urban Jungle 229
35. Working Drawings 233
36. Cells Out! 238
37. Presidents and Libraries 246
38. Critical Measure 255
39. Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know 277
40. Bull in China's Shop 285
41. Civilian Objects 294
42. Clear Light 301
43. The Architect as Worker 306
44. Travels with Zaha 316
45. Pinkwashing Zion Square 319
46. Burden of Gilt 323
47. Architecture against Trump 332
48. The City after the Autonomobile 336
In Memoriam 341
Acknowledgments 344
Chapter Credits 346
Index 349