My 99% invisible book club of The Power Broker is continuing in bits of pieces. I may yet finish the book this year.
The parallels between the New York of the start of the 20th century and the Berlin of today have been coming out hard and fast, but this stuff from the last episode I listened to did strike me.
Traffic increased sixfold but there are no new roads that have been built. There was no way to cross the water because of the lack of bridges.
Sounds like Berlin to me but then again maybe I’m just overfitting on the eternal struggles of big cities. I do think in many ways Berlin and NYC are similar but that’s a post for another day.
