{"product_id":"magnetic-city","title":"Magnetic City - A Walking Companion to New York","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine’s architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City—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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For nearly a decade, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Justin Davidson has explained the ever-changing city of New York to his readers at \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e 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 insider’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 it—its designers, visionaries, artists, writers—\u003ci\u003eMagnetic City\u003c\/i\u003e offers first-time visitors and lifelong residents a new way to see New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncludes walking tours throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • the Financial District\u003cbr\u003e • the World Trade Center \u003cbr\u003e • the Seaport and the Brooklyn waterfront\u003cbr\u003e • Chelsea and the High Line\u003cbr\u003e • 42nd Street\u003cbr\u003e • the Upper West Side\u003cbr\u003e • the South Bronx and Sugar Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMagnetic City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An intimate, seductive guidebook.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An enthralling new book makes clear that I’m not alone in my home-town infatuation . . . 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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Davidson] 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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A street-level celebration of New York City in all ‘its perpetual complexity and contradiction’ . . . a worthy companion to Alfred Kazin’s \u003ci\u003eA Walker in the City\u003c\/i\u003e and the American Institute of Architects guides to the architecture of New York as well as a treat for fans of the metropolis.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Justin Davidson does more than direct our feet to New York’s hidden monuments. He explains the structure of the city with a clarity that would be bracing even for a Gotham habitué, but more than that, he finds the meaning in every building and byway.”\u003cb\u003e—Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFar from the Tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mr. Davidson’s exceptional knowledge of our beloved city is inspiring. \u003ci\u003eMagnetic City\u003c\/i\u003e is now my official chaperone.”\u003cb\u003e—Patti LuPone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Justin 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.”\u003cb\u003e—Alex Ross, author of \u003ci\u003eListen to This\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Justin Davidson’s beautiful tours of New York City invoke and redouble our love of the metropolis.”\u003cb\u003e—Jerry Saltz, senior art critic, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50964337295648,"sku":"9780553394702","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780553394702.jpg?v=1764022937","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/magnetic-city","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}