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Subtitle: nyc
By: Katharine Harmon
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781616895495
Subjects: Cartography; Art; Pictorial works; Imaginary places; Maps; In art; Illustrated books; Cartographie; Livres illustrés; DESIGN; Graphic Arts; General; REFERENCE; Atlases & Gazetteers; TRAVEL; Maps & Road Atlases
Description: Maps are magical. Every graphic, like every story, has a point of view, and New York is rife with mapmaking possibilities, thick with mythology, and glutted with history. You Are Here: NYC assembles some two hundred maps charting every inch and facet of the five boroughs, depicting New Yorks of past and present, and a city that never was. "A Nightclub Map of Harlem" traces a boozy night from the Radium and the Cotton Club to the Savoy and then the Lafayette; "Wonders of New York" pinpoints three hundred sites of interest, including the alleged location of Captain Kidd's buried treasure; the Ghostbusters subway map plots the route from Astral Projections Place to Stay Puft Street; and a rejected proposal of ornate topiaries illustrates a Central Park that might have been. This sequel to the best-selling You Are Here includes original essays by Bob Mankoff, Maria Popova, Sarah Boxer, and Rebecca Cooper, among others.
Notes: Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed December 05, 2016).