Creating an Atlas of Overlooked Cartography for New York City

Source: hyperallergic.com - Thursday, December 15, 2016
“Wildlife,” cartography by Molly Roy; artwork by Tino Rodriguez (courtesy University of California Press) As Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, co-author with Rebeca Solnit of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas , told Hyperallergic, “everyone who lives in a city could map it in their own way.” For New York City, that means a possible 8 million distinct geographies for each of its diverse residents. Nonstop Metropolis , recently released by University of California Press as the third in Solnit’s trilogy of American city atlases, features a few of these experiential charts of New York, from “Brooklyn Villages” on the Native American settlements, Dutch villages, and contemporary ethnic enclaves of the borough, to “Mother Tongues and Queens” on that borough’s 800 languages. Cover of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (courtesy University of California Press) “We couldn’t do 8 million maps in this book, but we did do 26 maps, which all try, with inspiration from the beautiful paper maps and atlases of old, from the days before we all started getting around with Garmin devices and glowing phone-screens, to show all the ways that a great map can not only organize information, and tell a story, but help us deepen our understanding of place, and of where we are,” Jelly-Schapiro explained. Every map is an intense act of creative collaboration, with essays and illustrations in Nonstop Metropolis from over 30 artists and writers. Alongside

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