A rare journalistic outing by Tom Wolfe accuses voracious NY developers (aided and abetted by lax politicians) of laying waste to the city's landmarks. Not quite vintage Wolfe, perhaps, but you do get one of his trademark exclamations - Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh - and there's an exuberant plug for a book which, I'm ashamed to say, I'd never heard of before: Anthony Tung’s Preserving the World’s Great Cities. One for my Christmas wish-list.
[Via The Spine]
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