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Buildings

Vulgar Materialism

Translated by Anthony Lydgate,

From an online petition submitted in April to Piero Fassino, the mayor of Turin, requesting that he persuade the Spanish multinational NH Hotels not to name its new four-star location…

Sirocco

by Michael Christopher Brown,

Plaque Ops

by Russell Mokhiber,

The corporate conquest of a labor-relations school

Instant City

by Nicolai Ouroussoff,

China’s Wild West gets tamed

Grand Central: Inside/Outside

by Olive Ayhens,

Heirs Apparent

by Daniel Brook,

From A History of Future Cities, by Daniel Brook, to be published next month by W. W. Norton. Brook’s article “New Hampshire Goddam” appeared in the November 2012 issue of…