Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

This is hard to rate! I wanted to like it more, conceptually, but the truth is I found it slow going to read. Some of the essays are very interesting, others are rather dull. There's an overall lack of cohesion, which seems like it should work in terms of viewing the city through many lenses, but somehow just feels disorienting. Weird form factor – a bit too large to read comfortably, yet it feels cramped as an atlas (especially the fact that it doesn't lay flat, though the maps are split over two pages). The maps all felt quite dense and hard to engage with. It's obvious that lots of love went into all the graphic design and cartography, but something about it just missed the mark for me.