Magnetic City

From New York magazine s architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city
Fo [...]
Visa längre beskrivning

From New York magazine s architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city
For nearly a decade, Pulitzer Prize winning critic Justin Davidson has explained the ever-changing city of New York to his readers at New York magazine, introducing new buildings, interviewing architects, tracking the way the transforming urban landscape shapes who New Yorkers are. Now, his extensive, inspiring knowledge will be available to a wide audience. An insider s guide to the architecture and planning of New York that includes maps, photographs, and original insights from the men and women who built the city and lived in it its designers, visionaries, artists, writers Magnetic City offers first-time visitors and lifelong residents a new way to see New York.
Includes walking tours throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx
the Financial District
the World Trade Center
the Seaport, Governors Island, and Brooklyn waterfront
Chelsea and the High Line
42nd Street
the Upper West Side
the South Bronx and Sugar Hill
Advance praise for Magnetic City
Justin Davidson s beautiful tours of New York City invoke and redouble our love of the metropolis. His observations of landmarks, in-between places, and layered histories, delivered by an amazing kindred-spirit of architecture, make us feel like royal presences in the city. Jerry Saltz, senior art critic, New York
Justin Davidson has a mind alive to every signal, and his brilliant prose style transmits that electricity in black-and-white type. He is thus born to the task of capturing the chaotic splendor of New York City on the page. Alex Ross, author of Listen to This
In this exquisitely crafted book, Justin Davidson does more than direct our feet to New York's hidden monuments. He explains the structure of the city with a clarity that would be bracing even for a Gotham habitue, but more than that, he finds the meaning in every building and byway. If you already love the city, you will love it more after this book; if you have not yet fallen prey to its charms, these eloquent narratives will seduce you in. It would be glorious to go on the walks Davidson prescribes, but even those who read the book in an armchair a thousand miles away will be swept up by this evocative, pellucid, charming, and exuberant paean to the city that never sleeps. Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of Far from the Tree"