Philip Nobel
Philip Nobel is an architect, architectural critic, and author who has written about architecture at the New [York Times], Curbed, Metropolis, Artforum, Architectural Digest and other publications. He discussed disposable diaper design on Public Radio International. He lives in Brooklyn and is divorced with children.
A Kirkus Reviews writeup described his book Sixteen Acres about redevelopment efforts at the World Trade Center site known as Ground Zero as "unsparingly showing New York City’s power brokers taking a nation-bending hole in the ground and mixing into it a witch’s brew of ego, politics, greed, and amnesia".
Nobel has stated that protest and organizing have moved online. He stated malls are becoming a place of civic engagement and training grounds for future urbanism.