I went to Yale because it had a great music school and I also wanted a broader education. And I gravitated to history really because I thought, okay, if I'm going to be interested in how the world works, I better know what happened. So it was really just like me doing training 101 for adulthood.
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.”