Twenty minutes in Manhattan
By: Michael Sorkin.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781861894281
Subjects: Sorkin, Michael, -- 1948- -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York; Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York; Urban ecology (Sociology) -- New York (State) -- New York; Street life -- New York (State) -- New York; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Description: Over the course of more than fifteen years, architect and critic Michael Sorkin has taken an almost daily walk from his apartment near Washington Square in New York's Greenwich Village to his architectural studio further downtown in Tribeca.

This walk has afforded abundant opportunities for Sorkin to reflect on the ongoing transformation of the neighbourhoods through which he passes; inspired by events both mundane and monumental, "Twenty Minutes in Manhattan" unearths a network of relationships between the physical and the social city.
Table of contents: title: The stairs; title: The stoop; title: The block; title: Washington Square; title: LaGuardia Place; title: Soho; title: Canal Street; title: Tribeca; title: 145 Hudson Street; title: Alternative routes; title: Esprit d'Escalier.