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Whilst the next example is not from London, it would be remiss to not
include it in this paper. It is Saul Steinberg's cover on The New Yorker
magazine of March 29, 1976 - “The World from 9th Avenue” ( Figure 6 ).
In 2005 this cover was awarded 4 th place in the American Society of
Magazine Editor's Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years. It shows
Manhattan's 'telescoped' perception of the USA: beyond 9 th Avenue there
lies the Great Plains of America, and beyond that the Pacific, China, Japan
and Russia - nothing else! The “supposed limited mental geography of
Manhattanites” is clearly shown. The boundary of the place of Manhattan
is delineated - it stops at 9 th Avenue.
Figure 6: Saul Steinberg's cover on the New Yorker, March 29, 1976. Source:
http://www.magazine.org/ASSETS/DB8AB50D9EAA4D1A977E2EC55E7C6378/4.jpg