Nonstop Metropolis : : a New York City Atlas

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Call Number: 912.747 No Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Maps with accompanying essays.
Introduction : Centers and edges -- Map 1. Singing the city: the New York of dreams. Our city of songs / 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 / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro -- Map 3. Crash: crises and collisions in 21st-century lower Manhattan. Falling and rising in lower Manhattan / Astra Taylor -- Map 4. Riot! Periodic eruptions in volcanic New York. The violence of inequality / Luc Sante -- Map 5. Carboniferous: Climate change and the city. Petro Gotham, people's Gotham / Daniel Aldana Cohen -- Map 6. Water and power: the reach of the city. Thirsts and ghosts, Heather Smith -- Map 7. Harper's and harpooners: Whaling and publishing in Melville's Manhattan. Sailors and scriveners / Paul La Farge -- Map 8. What is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs. My Yiddishe papa / Sheerly Avni ; The lost world of Jewish Flatbush / Joel Dinerstein -- Map 9. Archipelago: the Caribbean's far north. Of islands and other mothers / Gaiutra Bahadur -- Map 10. City of Women. The power of names / Rebecca Solnit -- Map 11. Love and rage -- Map 12. City of walkers: around the world in a day. Round and round / Garnette Cadogan -- Map 13. Wildlife. The oysters in the spire / Rebecca Solnit -- Map 14. Our Latin thing: New York city radio en español. The mega mezclapolis / Alexandra Y. Vazquez -- Map 15. Burning down and rising up: the Bronx in the 1970s. New York City: seeing through the ruins / 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 / Jonathan Tarleton -- Map 17. Trash in the city: dumping on Staten Island and beyond. Coming clean / Lucy R. Lippard -- Map 18. Mysterious land of Shaolin: the Wu-Tang Clan's Staten Island. Breathing space: an interview with RZA / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro -- Map 19. Brownstones and basketball: Brooklyn's home grounds and games. Empire of brownstone and brick / Thomas J. Campanella ; Prisoners of Red Hook / Francisco Goldman -- Map 20. Brooklyn villages. Freed but not free / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts -- Map 21. Public/private: a map of childhoods. Playgrounds I have known / 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" / Garnette Cadogan -- Map 24. Mother tongues and Queens: the world's languages capital. Tower of scrabble / Suketu Mehta -- Map 25. Black star lines: Harlem secular and sacred. Home to Harlem / Christina Zanfagna -- Map 26. Oscillating city: Manhattan, day and night. Schleptropolis / Thomas J. Campanella.

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Personal Place submitted by BookNerd on June 18, 2017, 3:17pm Solnit and Jelly-Shapiro put together maps as psychology, each essay a peek into the sense of place that goes so far beyond geography and into the realm of how each of our experience of a piece of the planet makes "place" a psychological map not just a geographical one.

Anyone who has spent time in New York or who intends to spend time in New York, or who simply visits New York via Google Streets will find themselves seeing the buildings, sidewalks, trees, in a multitude of lenses