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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Michael Kimmelman

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Michael Kimmelman has been the architecture critic of The New York Times since 2011, writing about cities, public space, infrastructure, community development, public housing, equity, and the environment. He joins to talk about his extraordinary career in journalism and his new book, “The Intimate City: Walking New York.”

Transcript

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You know, it is both the American idea, but there's something very cosmopolitan, truly

0:13.0

cosmopolitan about New York.

0:15.1

And that has to do with just coming here and feeling you are a part of it and it is a

0:20.1

part of you.

0:24.4

From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

0:31.9

For 18 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people

0:35.4

about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about

0:39.4

and working on.

0:40.9

On this episode, architecture, critic, and urbanist Michael Kimmelman talks about the

0:44.9

pleasures of walking in the city.

0:46.9

You never really understand a place unless you walk it, unless you're there.

0:52.3

Why are we tourists?

0:53.3

Why do we travel?

0:55.3

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1:02.1

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