num_pages: 232
description: Winner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New YorkThe 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 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 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
language: English
title: Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
publisher: University of California Press