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 historys eye."
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 expertsfrom linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalistsamplified 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.
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

Molly Roy; Richard Campanella; Chris Henrick; Rebecca Solnit; Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Solnit, Rebecca, editor; Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua, editor

United States, United States of America

First Edition, FR, 2016

Oct 19, 2016

Cut off text on some pages due to the text runs to its gutter.

224 pages : 31 cm
"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
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

"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 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"--Provided by publisher

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.

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