Why NYC Is the Perfect Place for Creative Map-Making | The Creators Project
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Although London and Berlin maps are fairly recognizable, both pale in comparison maps of New York. Manhattan is almost like a symbol for the city, though the other boroughs are no slouches. In a new book titled You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City, author Katharine Harmon aeshethically and psychologically charts the mapping of New York, from myth to real history, across a beautiful array of maps.
E. B. White’s essay on “Here Is New York” serves as the book’s conceptual appetizer. White famously stated that “there are roughly three New Yorks”: the one of those born there, the one that devours and spits out commuters each day, and then the one “of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something,” which he considered the greatest New York.