Magnetic city
Subtitle: a walking companion to New York
By: Justin Davidson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780553394702
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Walking; Description and travel; Historic buildings; Architecture; History; Historic sites
Description: "For nearly a decade, Pulitzer prize-winning critic Justin Davidson has explained New York, the city, to his readers at New York, the magazine. He has visited new and preserved buildings, explored neighborhoods in mid-transformation; interviewed architects, developers, and urban thinkers; and tracked the city's constant change. Now, he distills those experiences into Magnetic City, an ambler's guide to New York--the city around us, the one that's lost, and the one that's still to come. Essayistic in form, historical in scope, and filled with references to literature, music, art, and architecture, Magnetic City offers first-time visitors and lifelong residents a new way to see New York"--
Notes: "A Spiegel & Grau trade paperback original"--Title page verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Walk I. City of Money : the Financial District; title: Interlude I. City of Streets; title: Walk II. Liquid City : the Seaport, Governors Island, and the Brooklyn Waterfront; title: Walk III. The City Reborn : the World Trade Center; title: Interlude II. City of Towers : the Skyline; title: Walk IV. The City Transformed : West Chelsea and the High Line; title: Walk V. City of Ideals : Forty-second Street from Bryant Park to the UN; title: Interlude III. City of Glass; title: Walk VI: City of Nostalgia : the Upper West Side; title: Interlude IV. City of Apartments; title: Walk VII. City of Dreams : Sugar Hill and the South Bronx; title: Finale : City of Memory.