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YOU ARE HERE - NYC
Mapping the Soul of the City
Katharine Harmon

Princeton Architectural Press, 2016
Trade paperback / 192 pages / $24.95

Of all the cities in the world, New York seems most conducive to creative cartography. Legions of artists, past and contemporary use maps to explore the city's familiar and unfamiliar terrains. As a follow-up to the bestselling You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, this volume takes you on a tour of the city’s zeitgeist, including...
   ...embroidered maps, maps made by pigeons, a map sculpted from marble, a map made of gelatin
   ...contemporary art, historic and pictorial maps, cartoons, infographics, hand-drawn maps
   ...a map of the city built by honeybees, a subway map labelled in Urdu calligraphy, a map of Craigslist missed connections.
These and many more works by over 100 artists offer marvelous insights into the world’s most creative and energized metropolis.

What a find! You Are Here: NYC by Katharine Harmon provides a delightfully ingenious perspective on territory that most readers might view as familiar.”
—The New York Times

Forget your GPS — Katharine Harmon’s latest book is the only map you need for a trip to the Big Apple.”
—Afar

Exploring [the] lacuna between physical reality and the interpretive imagination is a very different kind of atlas — You Are Here: NYC. ...What emerges is a layered inquiry into the relationship between self and space, the plurality of perspectives aimed at the same place, and the myriad ways in which we orient ourselves to the landscape against which we live out our lives.”
—Brain Pickings

New York City is among the most mapped places in the history of the world, 200 of which can be found in this collection. Harmon has compiled maps depicting NYC in stunning real and imagined forms. Even the most knowledgeable New Yorker will walk away seeing the city in a whole new light.”
—Mental Floss

We can't get enough of maps reinterpreting how we look at the city. This new book has assembled an impressive gallery of hundreds of stunning maps exploring 'the soul' of NYC, to give readers a strange and wondrous view of NYC's past, present and imagined future.”
—Gothamist

“In a new book titled You Are Here: NYC, author Katharine Harmon aesthetically and psychologically charts the mapping of New York, from myth to real history, across a beautiful array of maps.”
—The Creators Project

New Yorkers will love receiving this inventive collection of maps of the Big Apple. Sure, they might know that the streets go east and west and the avenues go north and south, but what about the locations of the clubs that bore witness to the birth of hip-hop? Among the some 200 color maps are ‘A Nightclub Map of Harlem’ (the Cotton Club and the Savoy are two notable landmarks) and ‘Wonders of New York,’ which highlights 300 sites of interest. Beautiful, intricate, and informative, these maps are sure to school even lifelong New Yorkers. “
—Real Simple

These are SO much better than an MTA subway map. We got a peek at a new book of dozens of NYC maps, You Are Here: NYC. And it's seriously awesome: There's everything from a nerd’s guide to the city to a breakdown of the totally unrealistic apartments on ‘Friends.’“
—Time Out New York

A 1908 map of the pneumatic telegram service, a 1950s proposed subway bomb shelter map and an interactive walking tour plan with attractions that existed in Manhattan 400 years ago (think forests and swamps) are a few of the unexpected treasures that lovers of cartography will discover in You Are Here: NYC.”
—Forbes

A wonderful treat for New Yorkers and for lovers of geography– and cartography–inspired looks at life in the past and today. Fans of Harmon's similar but broader previous gems will snap up this new work.”
—Library Journal

IMAGES   Header: "Battery Place and Washington Street" (detail) by Liz Hickok
"Metallic Manhattan" by Stanley Donwood; "Hand-held Subway" by Nina Katchadourian; "Elgin Gardens" by Mark Bradford; "Center of the Universe" by Mark Ulriksen; "Canal Street" by Alex Kalman with Lola Sinreich; "Harlem/Haarlem Contextual Empirical Diagram" by Olalekan Jeyifous; draft of "New Yorkistan" by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz; "Map of New York City Showing Proposed and Existing Pneumatic Tube Service" (artist unknown); photo documentation of "Manhattan's Urban Fabric" by Liz Kueneke

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