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Mapping the City — But Whose?

Published at: 04:12 pm - Wednesday December 06 2006

Navigating urban worlds, New York According to British novelist Will Self, “people don’t know where they are anymore.” The “student of psycho-geography” was recently chronicled walking from JFK Airport in Queens to his hotel in Lower Manhattan, an apparently perilous journey involving the traversing of a sidewalk-less overpass at night and being tailed by a […]

Posted in: Maps, Society and Culture, United States by Christopher Szabla 4 Comments , , ,

Upper East Exodus?

Published at: 06:11 pm - Saturday November 18 2006

Park Avenue; photo by flickr user Ansual The Upper East Side is dying, at least according to New York magazine, in the latest issue of which Jay McInerney tries to convince us that the bastion of the New York elite is heading towards extinction. If such a proclamation is meant to be anything but hubris, […]

Posted in: Demographics, Society and Culture, United States by Christopher Szabla 1 Comment , , , ,
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