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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Rebecca Solnit
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Description for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Hardback. Part of a trilogy of atlases, this title conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. Num Pages: 232 pages, 60 color images. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG; RGC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 953.
"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings 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 music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists-amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. ... Read more
"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings 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 music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists-amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520285941
SKU
V9780520285941
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About Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is a prolific writer, and the author of many books including Savage Dreams, Storming the Gates of Paradise, and the best-selling atlases Infinite City and Unfathomable City, all from UC Press. She received the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society for her work on the previous atlases. Joshua ... Read more
Reviews for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
"The editors have assembled a remarkable team of artists, geographers and thinkers...The maps themselves are things of beauty...This is a work that, like its predecessors, isn't in the business of rosy nostalgia...Nonstop Metropolis is a document of its time, of our time."
Sadie Stein New York Times "In orienting oneself in this atlas...one is invited to fathom the many ... Read more
Sadie Stein New York Times "In orienting oneself in this atlas...one is invited to fathom the many ... Read more