Belly by Lisa Selin Davis

I had the pleasure of meeting Lisa Selin Davis when I started here a couple years ago. Thanks to theboxtank, I was reminded of her new book, Belly. Read also the funky Gothamist interview with her, where she gets right down to business,

"If you drive along I-95, you see these carcasses of cities, all these disastrous urban renewal projects that tore out the architectural heart of cities -- "slum clearance" -- and replaced them with these uniformly ugly modernist towers, what I call the architecture of intolerance. And that's what I think they're doing to Brooklyn: making it look like Anywhere, USA."