What Was It Like Growing Up?

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My dad was with the Freedom Riders and he was very close to many of the leaders of the civil rights movement. I think that also helped shape my career and my desire to unpack things in a more granular way, which is part of what journalism is supposed to do. My mother appreciated that more. She was a much more cynical New Yorker,. But it was my father's sort of encompassing view of things that was the dominant voice in the house. It's been the backdrop to the way I think about so many things and so many things that I need to do in work.

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.”