About the book: 2015 / Every morning, architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks from his apartment in Greenwich Village through Washington Square to his studio in Tribeca. Sorkin is in no hurry; and he never neglects what surrounds him. On the contrary, he pays the closest attention to everything around him. In Twenty Minutes in Manhattan he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows. It reveals incredible layers of history, engineering, art and rich social drama - all within the space of a simple twenty-minute walk..