City of Women

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Cartography by Molly Roy, from “Nonstop Metropolis,” by Rebecca Solnit
and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
Subway Route Symbols ® Metropolitan Transportation Authority

What if the New York City subway map paid homage to some of the city’s great women?

Dead men with live identities haunt New York City and almost every city in the Western world. Their names are on the streets, buildings, parks, squares, colleges, businesses, and banks, and their figures are on the monuments.

In the map “City of Women” American writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit pays homage to some of the great and significant women of New York City in the places where they lived, worked, competed, went to school, danced, painted, wrote, rebelled, organized, philosophized, taught, and made names for themselves.

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