{"id":3072,"date":"2016-10-17T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2016-10-17T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:10:27","slug":"nonstop-metropolis-a-new-york-city-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/nonstop-metropolis-a-new-york-city-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"nonstop-metropolis\"<\/a>Another book coming out this month:\u00a0Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas<\/strong><\/a><\/em> by Rebecca Solnit<\/a> and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro (University of California\u00a0Press<\/a>, 19 October). It’s the third and apparently final book in a series of city atlases authored or co-authored by Solnit — you may remember\u00a0Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas<\/em><\/a> (2010) or\u00a0Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas<\/em><\/a> (2013). If you do, you’ll have some idea of what\u00a0Nonstop Metropolis<\/em> is likely to be about.\u00a0Curbed New York<\/a><\/em>\u2019s Nathan Kensinger has a piece on it<\/a>, in case you don’t. [MAPS-L<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another book coming out this month:\u00a0Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro (University of California\u00a0Press, 19 October). It’s the third and apparently final book in a series of city… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[30,54,194],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-books","tag-cities","tag-new-york-city","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3651,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/recent-book-reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":3072,"position":0},"title":"Recent Book Reviews","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 December 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"At\u00a0The Skiffy and Fanty Show, Paul Weimer reviews\u00a0Atlas Obscura. \"So is there a point to the book? 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