Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this
book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that
provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New
Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty
essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices, including geographers,
scholars of sugar and bananas, the city's remarkable musicians,
prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and Native voices, and
local experts, as well as the coauthors' compelling contributions.
Featuring 22 full-color two-page-spread maps, Unfathomable City
plumbs the depths of this major tourist destination, pivotal scene
of American history and culture and, most recently, site of
monumental disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil
spill. The innovative maps' precision and specificity shift our
notions of the Mississippi, the Caribbean, Mardi Gras, jazz, soils
and trees, generational roots, and many other subjects, and expand
our ideas of how any city is imagined and experienced. Together
with the inspired texts, they show New Orleans as both an imperiled
city - by erosion, crime, corruption, and sea level rise - and an
ageless city that lives in music as a form of cultural resistance.
Compact, lively, and completely original, Unfathomable City takes
readers on a tour that will forever change the way they think about
place.
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