What Makes a City: A Highly Subjective, Idiosyncratic New York Atlas - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/books/review/nonstop-metropolis-rebecca-solnit-joshua-jelly-schapiro.html
Déjà signalé ici, mais recension intéressante pointée par Thomas Deltombe.
NONSTOP METROPOLIS
A New York City Atlas
Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Illustrated. 224 pp. University of California Press. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $29.95.
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody,” Jane Jacobs wrote, “only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” As demonstrated by “Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas,” that’s both the reward and the challenge of trying to capture an urban soul, whatever the medium. This is the final volume in an ambitious and imaginative trilogy of city atlases edited by Rebecca Solnit, this time with the assistance of Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. As in “Infinite City,” an exploration of San Francisco, and the New Orleans-focused “Unfathomable City,” the work intersperses 26 beautifully rendered maps with essays that attempt to grapple with New York as it is, was and imagines itself to be.