This handsome volume features 65 full-color maps charting Manhattan's development from the first Dutch settlement to the present. Each map is placed in context

Writers know only too well how long it can take—and how awkward it can be—to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not alwa

Part guide, part meditation, part history, this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book sets the moral scene in which we must commemorate the lives of