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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas…
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (2016. Auflage)

von Rebecca Solnit (Autor)

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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 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." -- Publisher's description.… (mehr)
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Titel:Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Autoren:Rebecca Solnit (Autor)
Info:University of California Press (2016), 232 pages
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This is an interesting book format because it is at once at atlas and a cultural history book. The maps included in the book show where different cultural events happened, for example, where different songs were recorded. My favorite section is on the Jewish history in New York, so the book offers detailed information on topics that are not available in most tour books or atlases. The book is also a three part series including New York City, New Orleans and San Francisco. This theme is based on a quote by Tennessee Williams - "America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland." I believe Rebecca Solnit has also lived in all three cities, so there is some bias there as well, so I can't disagree with her. ( )
  kerryp | Jul 4, 2020 |
Actually this really interesting collection of maps and essays was written and designed by a number of writers and artists. The collection is one of three on cities in the United States-the others are San Francisco and New Orleans. The maps are not your run of the mill geographical surveys-these maps show where people lived, centres of important events in the life of the city from parks, water resources, garbage centres, whaling and publishing, important women, the life of Harlem, languages in Queens and more. I enjoyed reading the essays that combined history and personal memoirs. A great find thanks to my sister-in-law and brother! ( )
  torontoc | Jan 10, 2017 |
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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 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." -- Publisher's description.

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