How is water changing the way we imagine coastal cities? This is the central question that May Joseph asks in Fluid New York. Joseph offers a historical reading of the transformation of New York City’s waterfront over the last two decades. In Fluid New York Joseph opens up the idea that medieval coastal cities are connected by both urban planning histories and now with a new reality of climate change. Using maps, photographs and cartographic imagining, Joseph opens up the challenges facing global cities like New York and Istanbul, through the case study of New York City’s hurricane sandy and its catastrophic impact on New York’s urban infrastructure.