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Michael Sorkin Taught Me How to Look at New York

Remembering the critic and architect — who died a year ago this week — and revisiting his book Exquisite Corpse.

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HugoLindgren

@HugoLindgren

Mar 22, 2021

When Michael Sorkin covered architecture for the Village Voice in the 1980s, he wrote as if the built environment was something every New Yorker had a stake in.

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Progressive City: Radical Alternatives

@pcityradical

Mar 26, 2021

Celebrating #MichaelSorkin - who was an amazing comrade and co-conspirator in radicalizing the way we collectively conceive, design, plan and enact cities. progressivecity.net/single-post/20

TerreformUR and Planners Network NYC

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Ninety Minutes with Michael - Urban Design Forum

City College of NY

@CityCollegeNY

Mar 17, 2021

What would #MichaelSorkin call on us to do next? This question will animate "Ninety Minutes with Michael," a virtual gathering 3/26 in memory of the late distinguished professor at CCNY's Spitzer School of #Architecture and celebrated urbanist and activist ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccnys-spi

Ninety Minutes with Michael. Photo of the late CCNY Distinguished Professor Michael Sorkin. Sponsoring organization logos: Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York, the Architectural League, Terreform, and Urban Design Forum

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⁩ to celebrate our beloved mentor, Michael Sorkin. We will gather with Michael’s comrades to consider: what would Michael call on us to do next? The memorial will be hosted via zoom on March 26, 2021, 12 PM to 130 PM EST.

urbandesignforum.org

Join us to celebrate Michael Sorkin’s enduring contributions as a brilliant urbanist, fierce critic, and beloved mentor.

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Architectural League

@ArchLeague

Mar 9, 2021

Join us on March 26 at 12 p.m. EST to celebrate Michael Sorkin’s enduring contributions as a brilliant urbanist, fierce critic, and beloved mentor. Co-sponsored with

@UDFNYC

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@CityCollegeNY

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Ninety Minutes with Michael - The Architectural League of New York

. Learn more and register:

archleague.org

Join us to celebrate Michael Sorkin’s enduring contributions as a brilliant urbanist, fierce critic, and beloved mentor.

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NYU Kevorkian Center

@nyukevo

Mar 5, 2021

#FacultyFind: Associated faculty Helga Tawil-Souri contributes "Internet Pigeon Work” to “Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope”

. She offers a different kind of digital network as an intervention imagining a better place for Gazans/Palestinians. bit.ly/2PbVi5E

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Francesco Sebregondi

@FSBRG

Mar 1, 2021

📢 Very happy to relay that the much-anticipated book "Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope" is now published! Really glad to have contributed a piece to this wonderful collection of writings. I only wish Michael could have held it in his hands🥀 Many thx

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

@arablit

Feb 23, 2021

This was a really rich, interesting event. Looking forward to the next one, March 18, w/

& Salem Al Qudwa (event listing here: lse.ac.uk/Geography-and-)

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· Feb 16, 2021

We are excited to announce the launch of Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope edited by Michael Sorkin & @deensharp . @LSEMiddleEast will be hosting a webinar on February 22, 2021 4:00 PM GMT. Find out more and register through the link! lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce

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FaDi فادي

@fadishayya

Feb 16, 2021

When Gaza travels to worlds of architectural and urban pedagogies. Hope to see many friends there. Cc:

@drewdown32

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· Feb 16, 2021

We are excited to announce the launch of Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope edited by Michael Sorkin & @deensharp . @LSEMiddleEast will be hosting a webinar on February 22, 2021 4:00 PM GMT. Find out more and register through the link! lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce

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Ted Landrum

@UbuLoca

Feb 16, 2021

register to attend a Feb 22 book launch for "Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope" (4pm London time) hosted by

@LSEMiddleEast

Edited by Michael Sorkin & Deen Sharp

Arab Urbanism العمران العربيّ

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@araburbanism

· Feb 15, 2021

Launch of “Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope” book co-edited by @deensharp will be this Monday 22 February 2021 4:00pm. The event is hosted by the @LSEMiddleEast. Details below. lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce

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Feb 16, 2021

We are excited to announce the launch of Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope edited by Michael Sorkin &

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@LSEMiddleEast

will be hosting a webinar on February 22, 2021 4:00 PM GMT. Find out more and register through the link! lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce

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Byron Nicholas, PP, AICP

@BlackAndUrban_

Jul 2, 2020

In the latest Black and Urban Planning Therapy campaign, I talk about "Signs of Environmental Discrimination" and how they can be subtle while exacerbate inequities for Black and Brown low-income to middle class folks, compared to their White peers. 1/

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Annie #HousingIsAHumanRight

@citykoh

Jun 3, 2020

Policing is NOT synonymous with public safety

@ericcwms

@justcitydetroit

@Combsthepoet

700 surveillance cameras of Project Greenlight has NOT created true safety (Detroit's "public private partnership" for surveillance) #RaceTechCS

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Philip Lawton

@PhilLawton

May 30, 2020

'He advocated for housing and green energy rather than prisons and malls, and for citizens to participate in the design of their own urban destinies.' (NYTimes). list of obituaries for Michael Sorkin here along with archive of his work via

In Memoriam — Michael Sorkin Archive

michaelsorkin.info

In Memoriam New York Times: Michael Sorkin, 71, Dies; Saw Architecture as a Vehicle for Change, by Joseph Giovannini Washington Post: Michael Sorkin,...

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May 26, 2020

A digital archive for Michael Sorkin’s work has been launched. More of Michael’s work will be added to the collection of his writings and lectures. Check it out! Additionally, the video recording of his memorial is now up on terreform.info/news michaelsorkin.info

terreform.info

News — Terreform

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Thank you

for highlighting a brilliant mind and 999,999 other American lives.

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May 15, 2020

we will begin shortly, the link to our facebook page is www.facebook./Terreform/

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MAS Context

@MASContext

· May 15, 2020

Today at 6 pm (EST) → Celebrating Michael Sorkin with remarks by @vyjayanthirao @deensharp Joan Copjec, Makoto Okazaki, Andrei Vovk, Jonathan Solomon, Tom Angotti , @sofia_butnaru, Denise Hoffman Brandt, and @isaacgertman facebook.com/events/2435941

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May 14, 2020

Friendly reminder that tomorrow, Friday, May 15, 6 PM Eastern Time, we will livestream Michael Sorkin's memorial on Facebook. The livestream will be saved and kept under the videos section of the page, facebook.com/Terreform/

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peter noever

@peternoever

May 14, 2020

Michael Sorkin (1948–2020) noever-design.com/michael-sorkin — celebration for Michael on Friday, May 15 by

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May 11, 2020

Join us in celebrating our founder, Michael Sorkin. On Friday, May 15, 6 PM Eastern Time, Michael’s memorial will be streamed live on Terreform Center for Urban Research facebook page facebook.com/Terreform/

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“Architecture is Never Non-Political”: Michael Sorkin - Failed Architecture

May 5, 2020

A touching tribute by

@fadishayya

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@FailedArch

“Architecture is Never Non-Political”: Michael Sorkin

failedarchitecture.com

A personal tribute to Michael Sorkin, whose untimely death after contracting COVID-19 has robbed us of a forceful and inspirational presence for socia...

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The Avery Review

@averyreview

May 4, 2020

“This is not a moment to take peaceful stock of a life lived to the fullest.”

@monchaux

@markkrotov

hear Michael Sorkin's prophecies with urgency instead, in

@nplusonemag

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review of The Helsinki Effect. Find the book through our website urpub.org. progressivecity.net/single-post/20

urpub.org

Urban Research

Urban Research urpub.org is the imprint of Terreform terreform.info, nonprofit founded by Michael Sorkin, urban designer, architecture critic, and author.

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The London School of Architecture

@LSofARCH

May 3, 2020

In the latest issue of Citizen, Julio Salcedo-Fernández and his colleagues at

, the R&D studio founded by Michael Sorkin, select extracts from Sorkin’s writing on architecture, cities & Donald Trump. Citizen is free to read online at citizen-mag.org/spring2020

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Apr 15, 2020

UR 09 Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio De Janeiro now available as an e-book through our website urpub.org/e-books. Don’t forget to check out the other titles available electronically!!!

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Progressive City: Radical Alternatives

@pcityradical

Apr 8, 2020

Our editor #TomAngotti writes about the life and work of his friend and colleague #MichaelSorkin, known—among many other things—for his work leading

and as architecture critic at

@thenation

. Rest in peace, Michael. progressivecity.net/single-post/20

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Deen Sharp

Terreform, Berke, Wines, and more remember the late Michael Sorkin

Apr 8, 2020

Vyjayanthi Rao and I pay tribute to #MichaelSorkin in our capacity as co-Directors of Michael’s NGO Terreform (terreform.info) and Senior Editors of Urban Research (urpub.org).

archpaper.com

In this second collection of remembrances, James Wines, Moshe Safdie, Deborah Berke, Barry Bergdoll, and more pay tribute to Michael Sorkin.

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eBooks on sale now for $10 buy here > urpub.org/e-books #MichaelSorkin's Urban Research press has 15 books forthcoming, your eBook purchases will help them continue their work.

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Anna Artyushina

@socioanna

Apr 9, 2020

Folks, to those of you researching cities. Michael Sorkin's

has made its amazing books available for just $10: urpub.org/e-books?utm_so #architecture #geography #planning #urban #cities #Sociology

urpub.org

E-Books — Urban Research

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All

's books are now available as e-books. Do take a look if you're interested in #urban issues and research, and consider supporting Terreform during this challenging and sad time. buff.ly/2JVC9is #urbanstudies #geography #architecture #NewYork

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Apr 2, 2020

In the loving memory of Michael mailchi.mp/terreform/in-t

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Jamie Jensen

@HowCitiesWork

Mar 30, 2020

At a time when the builders of walls, towers, and digital surveillance systems are in charge... using the global health emergency to encroach on our civil liberties, we all need to channel #MichaelSorkin and continue the fight