Nonstop metropolis : a New York City atlas

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"Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable, unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts, from linguists to historians of music, urbanism, and et...

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Other Authors: Roy, Molly (Cartographer), Campanella, Richard (Cartographer), Henrick, Chris (Cartographer), Solnit, Rebecca (Editor), Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua (Editor)
Format: Map
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Human geography > New York (State) > New York > Maps.
Human geography.
Manners and customs.
New York (N.Y.) > Maps.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > Maps.
New York (State) > New York.
Atlases.
Maps.
Table of Contents:
  • Centers and edges
  • map 1. Singing the city : the New York of dreams ; Our city of songs / by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Garnette Cadogan, Valeria Luiselli, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Mirissa Neff, Teju Cole, Margo Jefferson, and Barry Lopez
  • map 2. Capital of capital : how New York happened ; The best city money can buy / by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
  • map 3. Crash : crises and collisions in 21st-century lower Manhattan ; Falling and rising in lower Manhattan / by Astra Taylor
  • map 4. Riot! : periodic eruptions in volcanic New York. The violence of inequality / by Luc Sante
  • map 5. Carboniferous : climate change and the city ; Petro Gotham, people's Gotham / by Daniel Aldana Cohen
  • map 6. Water and power : the reach of the city ; Thirsts and ghosts / by Heather Smith
  • map 7. Harper's and harpooners : whaling and publishing in Melville's Manhattan ; Sailors and scriveners / by Paul La Farge
  • map 8. What is a Jew? : from Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs ; My Yiddishe papa / by Sheerly Avni ; The lost world of Jewish Flatbush / by Joel Dinerstein
  • map 9. Archipelago : the Caribbean's far north ; Of islands and other mothers / by Gaiutra Bahadur
  • map 10. City of women ; The power of names / by Rebecca Solnit
  • map 11. Love and rage
  • map 12. City of walkers : around the world in a day ; Round and round / by Garnette Cadogan ; map 13. Wildlife ; The oysters in the spire / by Rebecca Solnit
  • map 14. Our Latin thing : New York city radio en español ; The mega mezclapolis / by Alexandra Y. Vazquez
  • map 15. Burning down and rising up : the Bronx in the 1970s ; New York City : seeing through the ruins / by Marshall Berman ; Interviews with Valerie Capers, Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore, and Melle Mel
  • map 16. Makers and breakers : Olmsted, Moses, Jacobs shape the city ; Ways and means / by Jonathan Tarleton
  • map 17. Trash in the city : dumping on Staten Island and beyond ; Coming clean / by Lucy R. Lippard
  • map 18. Mysterious land of Shaolin : the Wu-Tang Clan's Staten Island ; Breathing space : an interview with RZA / by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
  • map 19. Brownstones and basketball : Brooklyn's home grounds and games ; Empire of brownstone and brick / by Thomas J. Campanella ; Prisoners of Red Hook / by Francisco Goldman
  • map 20. Brooklyn villages ; Freed but not free / by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
  • map 21. Public/private : a map of childhoods ; Playgrounds I have known / by Emily Raboteau
  • map 22. The suburban theory of the avant-garde : New Jersey's greats ; North stars and gospel battles : Peter Coyote's Jersey memories
  • map 23. Planting liberty : 350 years of freedom in Flushing ; "Law of love, peace and libertie" / by Garnette Cadogan
  • map 24. Mother tongues and Queens : the world's languages capital ; Tower of scrabble / by Suketu Mehta
  • map 25. Black star lines : Harlem secular and sacred ; Home to Harlem / by Christina Zanfagna
  • map 26. Oscillating city : Manhattan, day and night ; Schleptropolis / by Thomas J. Campanella.

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