Reviews for Illustrated Navigation

The average rating for Illustrated Navigation based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-08-20 00:00:00 George Ohlin i first read this book for a paper i was writing on a sector of the new york city economy. what a ride! (sorry about the bad joke.) i know biju slightly, and know his and bhairavi desai's work to organize new york's incredibly diverse fleet of cabdrivers even more intimately. this book roots an informed examination of this little-known yet highly visible sector of the city's economy in the struggle for economic justice for new york's south asians and immigrant workers after 9/11. an incredible, human, funny, and personal account of workers who have largely been forgotten except for a few courageous soldiers for social justice.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-17 00:00:00 Amanda Rhodes The first hundred fifty pages of this book were pretty good, discussing the taxi system in nyc and the problems with it. The socialist bias of the author was never disguised but it didnt take away from the interesting information the book contained. However the latter half or so of the book more or less dropped any taxi discussion for a screed against globalization and capitalism. At this point the biases of the author were much harder to ignore and both the material and the writing suffered dramatically. I mean it really fell off a cliff in the last 80 pages.