Download Ebook Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Yeah, soft data becomes a reason that you should read this book. If you bring the published publication for some locations, it will make your bag to be larger. When you can stick with the soft documents, it will not have to bring hefty point. Nonetheless, the Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro in soft documents can be a choice when you choose some areas or remain at home. Please read this book. It is not just the tip; it will certainly be motivations for you and also you're your life to move on better.
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Download Ebook Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Discover millions of book categories in this website. As one of one of the most visited site, we always offer the most effective point. Among them is Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro This is among one of the most referred books from us to provide for you. The analysis publication will certainly be always the inspiring publication not only for the people that over this subject however likewise others. To recognize how specifically this book will expose you can comply with more details below.
The way of exactly how this book exists in this web site connects a lot with that we are. This is a website, a much referred site that supplies great deals of publications, from earliest to most current published, from simple to complicated publications, from a nation to various other countries on the planet. So, it's not that array if Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is available right here. You understand, you are just one of the fortunate people who locate this website.
Just what should you believe much more? Time to get this Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro It is very easy then. You could just rest as well as remain in your location to get this publication Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Why? It is on the internet publication establishment that give so many collections of the referred books. So, just with net connection, you could take pleasure in downloading this publication Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and varieties of books that are searched for currently. By going to the link web page download that we have given, the book Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro that you refer so much can be located. Merely conserve the requested publication downloaded and install and then you can take pleasure in guide to read every time and place you want.
Also we talk about the books Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro; you may not find the published books below. A lot of compilations are given in soft file. It will precisely provide you much more benefits. Why? The very first is that you might not need to carry the book almost everywhere by satisfying the bag with this Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro It is for the book is in soft data, so you can wait in gizmo. After that, you can open the device everywhere as well as review the book properly. Those are some few perks that can be obtained. So, take all benefits of getting this soft data book Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, By Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro in this web site by downloading in web link given.
Winner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New York"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 PickingsNonstop 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. We are invited to travel through Manhattan’s playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City’s unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York’s buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
›
View or edit your browsing history
After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.
Product details
Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; First edition (October 19, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520285948
ISBN-13: 978-0520285941
Product Dimensions:
7 x 1 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
46 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#560,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is not a traditional atlas, but that's fine. The problem is that the readability of the maps is uneven. For example, the map of the city's water and power sources (6) is informative but the map indicating the local Spanish-language radio stations and their range (14) consists of two whole pages colored deep red (almost purple) with seven stations located. Consider the map entitled "City of Women" (10) - excellent. The map of Brooklyn in the 1970s (15) is a great idea poorly rendered. You may need a magnifying glass to understand much of the information on the maps. I think the authors and editors got carried away with the essays and artistic design and neglected how readers would respond to the maps. Deep colors and clutter often overwhelm the information. Summary: Recommended only to readers or libraries who collect books on the geography, history, politics, and sociology of NYC.
This is a beautifully made, odd book.It is incredibily sturdy for a papaerback. Its shape/dimensions are odd - probably because many of the maps/illustrations are of Manhatton and that shape is the size of this book. It was not what I expected, and yet I am paging tthrough every leaf of the book. I stop occationally to read. The topics are unusual and are covered in detail with side-bars of supporting information.
There is the joy of holding this luxurious object in one’s hand and cradling it’s unusual shape—twice as high as the cover across, when the book is pried open it’s like handling a square, a tablet perhaps from an age not yet born. And there’s the joy is realizing that Rebecca Solnit has written another book in her atlas series—yes, the writer who once said that she would resist being typed, that each of her books would come to us from a different quarter of the Dewey Decimal System has now mercifully lifted that rule slightly, for now this is apparently the third in a trilogy, thank God. With her co-editor, the estimable Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (author of the forthcoming Island People), she brings New York to life in a way you haven’t seen since the 1942 Julien Duvivier Fox anthology film Tales of Manhattan with Rita Hayworth, Paul Robseon and Ethel Waters. And for good measure, Solnit and JJS add in the surrounding boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx) and just to contextualize they have quite a bit about New Jersey too.The book begins with an informative introductive outlining the similarities and the differences between New York City and the subjects of previous “Atlas†treatments, San Francisco and New Orleans. The differences amount to scale—NYC dwarfs the other cities—and also self-esteem, for no one here in San Francisco, except the heads of large tech corporations, believes that if you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere. The previous books had titles ending with “City†but here the final word is amped up to “Metropolis,†which does make a difference, as well as bringing the clock back to the Weimar cinema of Fritz Lang and the horrors of the modern. As in the other books, pop music plays an important role in “Nonstop.†A panel of music lovers tell us what song drew them to New York, and it’s not just the obvious ones like “Empire State of Mind,†some of them are quite obscure. We also get a map of where all the money comes from and how New York fared in the four centuries since it was bought for a handful of beads. Anyone who’s been there can feel the fantastic weight of great wealth and visionary development, though here in San Francisco we had the fiery, Blakean fever dream that was Fritz Leiber’s Our Lady of Darkness, in which the weight of capital on the earth of the city produces demons through gravity alone.Of course there are many tales of horror laid in New York, from The Seventh Victim to Rosemary’s Baby to Wolfen to The Hunger—Larry Cohen singlehandedly must have made a dozen!—and many of them depend both on the alienation all large cities produce, and the relief one feels when one finds others enjoying the same coterie sports—whether it be publishing or Satanism or Santeria or NYC Ballet. New York, we discover, is a city of mass media but also of niche entertainment—Jack Smith would have audiences of a dozen people at some of his grandest extravaganzas. For the loneliest places, Nonstop Metropolis recruits venerable Luc Sante, who has been doing his Jean Valjean thing for decades, showing how you can sneak from Notre Dame Cathedral to the Louvre entirely underground through the city’s sewage tunnels, avoiding all but blurred glimpses of blue sky and sunshine. Sante was one of the founding members of the 1970s/1980s movement dubbed “The New Gothic,†and is at his best when called upon to narrate something grim and/or gruesome. Here he considers different sorts of riots, including two he himself stumbled into. His feeling that riots never solved anything—except in isolated cases such as Stonewall—is perhaps part of his shtick as the man who’s seen everything, for he sums up 150 years as a period in which only the deluded believe that something has changed since slavery. “The violence of inequality, inevitable, can still be made very real.â€There is perhaps a conflict, or to put it more fairly, a dynamism inherent in a book that grapples with many of the big problems not only of the urban but of the American politic itself, and yet manages to embody at the same time some of the creamy luxury of the perfect-bound book, with exquisite, imaginative design by Lia Tjandra. The Molly Roy maps run with this contradiction and never look back. No wonder America’s greatest map collector David Rumsey gave his approval to this Atlas project. Yes, “here there be dragons†in every unplumbed bay around New York’s archipelago of islands, but I’m hoping that this trilogy, like the film of The Hobbit, turns into a tetralogy at least.
Bought for a friend in NYC - she loves it.
Great book
I hated the hard bound version of this book when glancing at it in a favorite bricks and mortar bookstore -- the print is tiny and the maps are bound tightly so they often cannot be read in the most critical, central location.Go for the soft cover -- I ripped out the pages and taped the maps together and found it easier to photograph critical passages on my iPhone and then blow them up.All well worth the effort for passages like these:"Immigrants are central to the allure of the city. It’s a truism the city repeats endlessly to itself: Immigrants provide a rich diversity and cosmopolitan flavor that awaken one’s senses and enliven one’s sense of identity. (Though for far too many residents, immigrants are merely wonderful entertainment: “Give us your singers, your dancers, your cooking masses†seems to be the motto for the hordes talking about the coolest new Chinese restaurant or the funkiest new Brazilian band.) The ubiquitous presence of nonnative bodies with foreign tongues is among the reasons people assert that New York has a “low bar of entryâ€: A new immigrant can get off the plane at JFK International Airport and, shortly after, declare status as a New Yorker."So many immigrant groups lay claim to New York — a favor the city, in general, returns by championing itself as a city of immigrants — that newcomers can feel attached to the city merely by virtue of their intense allegiance to a group that already feels at home there. Certainly, many who migrate to the city are like the seeker E. B. White described in the middle of the 20th century in Here Is New York: “the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.†But for a sizable number of these immigrants, especially those who were forced here from elsewhere, home in New York may very well be a facsimile or echo of a home left behind. In some parts of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, I am tempted to take photographs, develop them, and playfully write “Kingston, circa 1990†on the back of the prints before I mail them back to Jamaica, where I grew up. In New York one can easily be elsewhere by being here."As a volunteer Big Apple Greeter I found many passages of the book captured why I volunteer to introduce visitors to this wonderful place.Robert C. RossJuly 2018
Interesting book
I thought this book made a great gift. It's quite beautiful and the stories inside are charming and interesting!
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro PDF
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro EPub
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Doc
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro iBooks
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro rtf
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Mobipocket
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Kindle