Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging
architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the
dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created
a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He looks at
what has happened to Ground Zero, as a place of memory has been
reconstructed by "staritects" and turned into malls. The city, he
suggests, has to be reimagined from the street up on a human scale,
to develop new ways to revitalise neighbourhoods. Alongside these
essays on New York, Sorkin also brings his lifetime's experience as
an architect to bear. He talks of the joy of observing a city in
order to understand it. Why a young designer must learn to draw by
hand rather than only use a computer. There are also personal
encounters with some of the greatest names who have changed the
city. Sorkin gets lost in Rio with Zaha Hadid and talks about the
old Bronx with Marshall Berman.
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