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making distinctive places that bridged the gap between high architectural culture and the general public.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
When the Fair came to a close on October 17, 1965, Robert Moses was revealed to the public in all his egotism, arrogance and ruthlessness. He was, in fact, portrayed, in the press’s emphasis on the $100,000 a year in salary and expenses and the escrow account, as something worse than he was—greedy for money. He was in public disrepute so great that
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The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (World Pacific). With Jordan Belsen, the filmmaker, he
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A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
“a living room for the city,”
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Both in urban and psychological space, Schulman witnessed “the replacement of complex realities with simplistic ones,” a process leading to a kind of social monoculture.