Rebecca Solnit completes a trilogy that began with San Francisco and New Orleans,with a book and exhibit examining the city’s iterations and attractionsIn your own personal, mental geography, and what does New York see like? A GPS grid of streets,shops and restaurants? A knot of colour-coded subway lines? Or perhaps Saul Steinbergs famously myopic View of the World from 9th Avenue.
For the writer, activist and Guardian contributor Rebecca Solnit, and Americas biggest conurbation is a “crazy diagonal slash of islands. whether you achieve the whole city together,almost half of it is New Jersey, but that is usually blotted out in some way. It is just a really big, and complex location.
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Source: theguardian.com