City Atlases Séria

Exploring New York City through twenty-six innovative maps and essays, this volume highlights the diverse experiences across all five boroughs and parts of New Jersey. Featuring insights from experts in various fields, it invites readers on a journey through vibrant neighborhoods like Queens and Brooklyn, while also addressing critical issues such as racial and economic inequality, environmental concerns, and historical erasure. This beautifully illustrated work celebrates the city's unique vitality and its role as a hub for the avant-garde and literary culture.

This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.

Exploring the San Francisco Bay Area, this innovative atlas delves into the complex layers of meaning that define a place. Through the collaboration of artists, writers, and cartographers, the book features twenty-two stunning color maps that reveal the city from various perspectives. Solnit's work invites readers to reconsider their understanding of location and experience, transforming the concept of an atlas into a rich narrative of interconnected lives and landscapes.

Presents twenty-two color maps and accompanying essays providing details on the people, ecology, and culture of the city.

What makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo.