Nonstop metropolis : a New York City atlas /
"Nonstop 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 experts-from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbani...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Centers and edges
- Map 1. Singing the city: the New York of dreams. Our city of songs / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Garnette Cadogan, Valeria Luiselli, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Mirissa Neff, Teju Cole, Margo Jefferson, and Barry Lopez
- Map 2. Capital of capital: how New York happened. The best city money can buy / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Map 3. Crash: crises and collisions in 21st-century lower Manhattan. Falling and rising in lower Manhattan / Astra Taylor
- Map 4. Riot! Periodic eruptions in volcanic New York. The violence of inequality / Luc Sante
- Map 5. Carboniferous: Climate change and the city. Petro Gotham, people's Gotham / Daniel Aldana Cohen
- Map 6. Water and power: the reach of the city. Thirsts and ghosts, Heather Smith
- Map 7. Harper's and harpooners: Whaling and publishing in Melville's Manhattan. Sailors and scriveners / Paul La Farge
- Map 8. What is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs. My Yiddishe papa / Sheerly Avni
- The lost world of Jewish Flatbush / Joel Dinerstein
- Map 9. Archipelago: the Caribbean's far north. Of islands and other mothers / Gaiutra Bahadur
- Map 10. City of Women. The power of names / Rebecca Solnit
- Map 11. Love and rage
- Map 12. City of walkers: around the world in a day. Round and round / Garnette Cadogan
- Map 13. Wildlife. The oysters in the spire / Rebecca Solnit
- Map 14. Our Latin thing: New York city radio en Español. The mega mezclapolis / Alexandra Y. Vazquez
- Map 15. Burning down and rising up: the Bronx in the 1970s. New York City: seeing through the ruins / Marshall Berman
- Interviews with Valerie Capers, Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore,and Melle Mel
- Map 16. Makers and breakers: Olmsted, Moses, Jacobs shape the city. Ways and means / Jonathan Tarleton
- Map 17. Trash in the city: dumping on Staten Island and beyond. Coming clean / Lucy R. Lippard
- Map 18. Mysterious land of Shaolin: the Wu-Tang Clan's Staten Island. Breathing space: an interview with RZA / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Map 19. Brownstones and basketball: Brooklyn's home grounds and games. Empire of brownstone and brick / Thomas J. Campanella
- Prisoners of Red Hook / Francisco Goldman
- Map 20. Brooklyn villages. Freed but not free / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
- Map 21. Public/private: a map of childhoods. Playgrounds I have known / Emily Raboteau
- Map 22. The suburban theory of the avant-garde: New Jersey's greats. North stars and gospel battles: Peter Coyote's Jersey memories
- Map 23. Planting liberty: 350 years of freedom in flushing. "Law of love, peace and libertie" / Garnette Cadogan
- map 24. Mother tongues and queens: the world's languages capital. Tower of scrabble / Suketu Mehta
- Map 25. Black star lines: Harlem secular and sacred. Home to Harlem / Christina Zanfagna
- Map 26. Oscillating city: Manhattan, day and night. Schleptropolis / Thomas J. Campanella.