# Michael Kimmelman

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The Sunday Read: ‘How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own’

Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of The New York Times, traveled to Houston to observe an approach to chronic homelessness that has won widespread praise. Houston, the nation’s fourth-most populous city, has moved more than 25,000 homeless people directly into apartments and houses in the…

The Sunday Read: ‘What Does It Mean to Save a Neighborhood?’

Nearly a decade after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed piers and damaged riverside social housing projects, residents of Lower Manhattan are still vulnerable to floods. Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s architecture critic, explores the nine-year effort to redesign Lower Manhattan i…

Michael Kimmelman: Why New York Should Be Savored on Foot Rather Than From an Automobile

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Michael Kimmelman, author of The Intimate City: Walking Ne…

Notre-Dame Rises From the Ashes

On Sunday, after a fire that many feared would destroy it, and a swift renovation that defied all predictions, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame reopened to the public.Michael Kimmelman, the chief architecture critic at The Times, tells the story of the miracle on the Seine.Guest: Michael Kimmelman, the …

Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO, The New York Public Library: Master Class in Transformative Leadership

In this episode of Capital for Good, we speak with Tony Marx, the president and CEO of the New York Public Library, the nation's largest library system and the world's preeminent public research library. Marx's reimagination of this storied institution builds on his transformative leadership in hig…

Episode 17: Michael Kimmelman’s The Intimate City: Walking New York

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New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, author of The Intimate City: Walking New York, joins Alyssa Katz in the latest installment of her occasional series asking the big question: What Is New York For?

How Iran Could Benefit From Its Deal With the U.S., and an A.I. Arms Race in Schools

Plus, the “Obamalisk” opens. Here’s what we’re covering: Trump Defends Deal to End the War With Iran as Details Emerge, by Erica L. Green, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Farnaz Fassihi and Michael Levenson Trump Feuds With Thune and G.O.P., Stoking Election-Year Rift, by Carl Hulse Trump Administration to…

I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel

A hypervisual, looks-obsessed, wellness-crazed, postliterate society where we’re constantly staring at screens and evaluating one another based on metrics, as the country around us feels like it’s falling apart: That sounds like the world we live in. It’s also the world Gary Shteyngart created in h…

Yes, In Your Backyard (w/ Yoni Appelbaum)

Yoni Appelbaum — historian and deputy executive editor at The Atlantic — joins us to talk about his latest book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. This is a classic Vanessa & Adaam convo…not only do we cover housing, NIMBYs, and the lunacies of P…

Who Pays for “Messiah”?

In the 18th century, Handel relied on royal patronage. Today, it’s donors like Gary Parr who keep the music playing. In this bonus episode of our “Making Messiah” series, Parr breaks down the economics of the New York Philharmonic.  SOURCES: Gary Parr, senior managing director and on the manageme…