Paul Goldberger — The Imperfect City: Design, Serendipity, and the Real Life of Cities - with Richard Levy — at Conn Ave

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic explores how modern cities thrive when urban planning leaves room for happy accidents and innovations The Imperfect City https://politics prose.com/book/9780593536513 recounts Goldberger's looking, lingering, and thinking about cities—how they develop their character, how they affect us, and how they change. On this exhilarating journey around the world, Goldberger points out each city's notable qualities, from the eco friendly features of Singapore's skyscrapers, to the collision and coexistence of old and new in Rome, to the boldly imagined lakefront in Chicago. He wanders the picturesque canals of Amsterdam, sets off down the jagged slash of Broadway across Manhattan's grid, and follows the poetic tributaries of Los Ange…

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