Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York

Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York

From New York magazineâ€™s architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York Cityâ€”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 Prizeâ€“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 insiderâ€™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 itâ€”its designers, visionaries, artists, writersâ€”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
â€¢ the Financial District
â€¢ the World Trade CenterÂ
â€¢ the Seaport and the Brooklyn waterfront
â€¢Â Chelsea and the High Line
â€¢Â 42nd Street
â€¢ the Upper West Side
â€¢ the South Bronx and Sugar Hill

Praise for Magnetic City

â€œAn intimate, seductive guidebook.â€â€”TheÂ New York Times

â€œAn enthralling new book makes clear that Iâ€™m not alone in my home-town infatuation . . .Â lends nuance, texture and historical perspective to my impression that New York City has never been so appealing or life-affirming as it is today.â€â€”New York Post

â€œ[Davidson]Â combines a keen intelligence, experience, observational skills, expertise (especially but not solely architectural), and an elegant writing style to make this beautifully produced book indispensable.â€â€”Booklist (starred review)

â€œA street-level celebration of New York City in all â€˜its perpetual complexity and contradictionâ€™ . . . a worthy companion to Alfred Kazinâ€™sÂ A Walker in the CityÂ and the American Institute of Architects guides to the architecture of New York as well as a treat for fans of the metropolis.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

â€œJustin Davidson does more than direct our feet to New Yorkâ€™s hidden monuments. He explains the structure of the city with a clarity that would be bracing even for a Gotham habituÃ©, but more than that, he finds the meaning in every building and byway.â€â€”Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author ofÂ Far from the Tree

â€œMr. Davidsonâ€™s exceptional knowledge of our beloved city is inspiring.Â Magnetic CityÂ is now my official chaperone.â€â€”Patti LuPone

â€œJustin 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.â€â€”Alex Ross, author ofÂ Listen to This

â€œJustin Davidsonâ€™s beautiful tours of New York City invoke and redouble our love of the metropolis.â€â€”Jerry Saltz, senior art critic,Â New York
Country USA
Brand Random House
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780553394702
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2017-04-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553394702

Country	USA
Brand	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780553394702
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2017-04-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553394702

Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York

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