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Michael Sorkin’s studio is “devoted to both practical and theoretical projects on all scales with a special interest in the city and in green architecture.” He’s also the director of the graduate urban design program at City College, an academic who splits his time between imagining the future and practicing his craft all over the world. As such, he is equal parts professional and augur—at once sharply articulate and dreamy-voiced, down-to-earth and starry-eyed. Two days after the reception, I meet him at a symposium on alternative transportation and ask if maybe these images are a bit extreme.
“We are propagandists,” he admits with a grin. “But this is not radical. It dovetails with ideas people are already thinking about.”
He cites as examples recent projects like the High Line, which was an elevated railway before a citizens’ group partnered with Parks and Rec and turned it into a public promenade. The city has waged its own war against the automobile since 2007, painting miles of bike lanes over parking spaces and banning cars from major intersections. Many of these measures are the work of maintains that these are very real imaginings (my weird oxymoron, not his). I pull him aside during the symposium’s lunch break and ask him about the realistic functions and goals of the project.
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