The Inquirer was a place where I had the opportunity to really try to stretch out as a journalist and was given a really good guidance by editors. And I was there not very long either. When I, a couple of years, I moved to the New York Times in, I think, 87. Do you still agree with that sentence? Time has generally been a good editor. Oh, God, yes, of course. And a cruel one too, sometimes. But yes, absolutely.
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.”