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NONSTOP METROPOLIS
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NONSTOP METROPOLIS Pb - 2016

by SOLNIT,REBECCA

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  • Title NONSTOP METROPOLIS
  • Author SOLNIT,REBECCA
  • Binding pb
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 2016-10-19
  • Features Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9780520285958
  • ISBN 9780520285958 / 0520285956
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 12 x 7.3 x 0.8 in (30.48 x 18.54 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Atlases
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016015756
  • Dewey Decimal Code 912.747

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From the rear cover

"I am thrilled to have another book-object in this series, as I devoured the San Francisco volume when I was there, and the New Orleans one likewise. Now finally here is one about the town where I live. The format, with the maps, networks, and accompanying stories and histories, is a lovely, nonlinear way of mirroring the almost infinite layers that make up a city. We all have our own mental maps of our cities and the ones we visit--maps that are, like the ones here, historical, musical, temporal, personal, economic, and geographical. The maps in Nonstop Metropolis are a good approximation of how we New Yorkers experience and perceive the city we live in."--David Byrne

"Put your map apps and your GPS away, because none of those high-tech innovations will lead you to the immense satisfaction that this hard-to-put-down book is full of. The unique, clever, and artistic maps give you the who, what, when, and, most importantly, where of loads of unusual and little-known New York City histories. As a New York City native I finally have all the maps I need to the treasures and secrets of my hometown."--Fab 5 Freddy

"A new way to think about the cultural and political life of cities."--Randy Kennedy, New York Times

"Solnit, well known for her writing on politics, art and feminism, has turned her attention to New York City's complexities in Nonstop Metropolis, the third of her trilogy of atlases and accompanying exhibitions."--Alex Rayner, The Guardian

Selected praise for Infinite City and Unfathomable City

"A deeply illuminating assemblage of maps and essays."--Lynell George, Chicago Tribune

"Inventive and affectionate."--Lise Funderburg, New York Times Book Review

"Brilliantly disorients our native sense of place."--Jonathon Keats, San Francisco Magazine

"With Unfathomable City, Solnit and Snedeker have produced an idiosyncratic, luminous tribute to the greatest human creation defined by its audience participants: the city itself."--Daniel Brook, New York Times

Media reviews

Citations

  • Foreword, 08/25/2016, Page 0

About the author

Rebecca Solnit is a prolific writer, and the author of many books including Savage Dreams, Storming the Gates of Paradise, and the best-selling atlases Infinite City and Unfathomable City, all from UC Press. She received the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society for her work on the previous atlases.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, New York, Harper's, and the Believer, among many other publications. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World.