New Yorkers and Climate Change

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I still get very excited when I see new things being built. There's something really interesting about having lived in New York my whole life, seeing a building and knowing before it was that,. It was that, and before it was this, andBefore it was that, it was that. And we have lost progress for sure. With threats like climate change and with growing inequities in which we really need more affordable housing, this is an issue of fairness not just a question of historical preservation.

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.”