Nonstop Metropolis

A New York City Atlas

Nonstop Metropolis

Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
Solnit, Rebecca

Editorial University Of California Press
Fecha de edición septiembre 2016 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780520285958
200 páginas
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Resumen del libro

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 ethnography to 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 Manhattans 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 Citys 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 Yorks 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.

Biografía del autor

Escritora, historiadora y activista, Rebecca Solnit es la autora de quince libros sobre medioambiente, paisajes y panoramas, la comunidad, el arte, la política, la esperanza y la memoria y que incluyen Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; The Faraway Nearby; Un paraíso construido en el infierno; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: Una historia del caminar y River of Shadows: Eadwear Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (por el que ha recibido una beca Guggenheim, el Premio del Círculo de Nacional de Críticos Literarios en su apartado de crítica y el Premio Litera






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