A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford.
“I was always in meetings. Always on the phone. You’re making sure that whatever vision the mayor has for the project you’re assigned to can be realized. Sometimes you’re a headache to people because you’re coming in with a change at the eleventh hour. Say the mayor was on a plane and he read in a magazine that Berlin was doing green roofs, so suddenly everyone has to plant gardens on their rooftops.