Garnette Cadogan
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Background
Garnette Cadogan is a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.
Interests
He explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism through his research and essays. His current research explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism. He writes about culture and the arts for various publications, and, in fall 2017, was included in a list of 29 writers from around the world who “represent the future of new writing.” He is the editor-at-large of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro) and is at work on a book on walking.
Sample Work
Publication
These Radiant Streets: Walking in the Modern City
These Radiant Streets: Walking in the Modern City. Forthcoming 2018.
Publication
Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Editor-at-large and contributor of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, co-editors, Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. University of California Press, 2016.
Publication
Introduction to Carolyn Drake
“Introduction to Carolyn Drake,” Aperture Magazine – Special issue on American Destiny (Spring 2017).
Publication
Law of Love, Peace, and Libertie
“Law of Love, Peace, and Libertie,” Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, co-edited with Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. University of California Press, 2016. Also published in Catapult (September 2017) as “Love Your Crooked Neighbor With Your Crooked Heart”.