"Urban planning is a long history of cities (and their planners) seeing, and deliberately not seeing, the people who live in them. Working in city planning makes me consider the city as an organism, as a machine for living in…"
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On how being a city planner affects her writing in “Questions For Arkady Martine, Author Of 'A Memory Called Empire'” in NPR (2019 Apr 7)
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