Winner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society
of New York
"The maps themselves are things of beauty . . . A document of its
time, of our time."
--Sadie Stein, New York Times
"One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's
eye."
--Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
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, urbanists, and environmental journalists--amplified by
cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs
of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to
travel through Manhattan's playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to
many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung
fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely
designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City's
unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary
history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality,
environmental impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis
allows us to excavate New York's buried layers, to scrutinize its
political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic
cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New
Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of
capitalism, culture, immigration, and more.
Contributors: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd,
Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana
Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman,
Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu
Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante,
Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez,
Christina Zanfagna
Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grand
Wizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA
