{"product_id":"all-over-the-map-isbn-9781844672202","title":"All Over the Map","description":"Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” \u003ci\u003eAll Over the Map\u003c\/i\u003e confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.”“Easily one of the best architecture critics around ... Sorkin is a flaneur with a sense of public purpose.”—Chris Hall, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“America’s most invigorating writer on architecture.”—\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sorkin is one of the most intelligent writers on architecture today.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sorkin is a formidable opponent of the banal, the ugly, the stupid and the vapidly posturing which, he argues, are all around us.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n intense mediation on the role of democracy in architecture, the role of the critic in that democracy and the dilemmas facing an architect who wants to make a difference (by working with that democracy) but needs to make a living (by pleasing an economic and political elite) ... One of the most impressive collections of contemporary criticism you could read.”—\u003ci\u003eArt Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAll Over the Map \u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasure to read”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Sorkin\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning architect and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Next Jerusalem, After the World Trade Center, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll Over the Map\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305544306917,"sku":"NP9781844672202","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844672202.jpg?v=1767721283","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/all-over-the-map-isbn-9781844672202","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}