num_pages: 176
description: Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas one that provides a vivid complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices including geographers scholars of sugar and bananas the city's remarkable musicians prison activists environmentalists Arab and Native voices and local experts as well as the coauthors' compelling contributions. Featuring 22 full-color two-page-spread maps Unfathomable City plumbs the depths of this major tourist destination pivotal scene of American history and culture and most recently site of monumental disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.The innovative maps' precision and specificity shift our notions of the Mississippi the Caribbean Mardi Gras jazz soils and trees generational roots and many other subjects and expand our ideas of how any city is imagined and experienced. Together with the inspired texts they show New Orleans as both an imperiled city--by erosion crime corruption and sea level rise--and an ageless city that lives in music as a form of cultural resistance. Compact lively and completely original Unfathomable City takes readers on a tour that will forever change the way they think about place.Read an excerpt here: Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker by University of California PressListen to an interview with the authors here:http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/16097/new...
language: English
title: Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
publisher: University of California Press