THIS ARTICLE ABOUT MEAT IN THE CITY will start between the most superficial of resemblances; on the left, a diagram of cuts of meat, of the type often exhibited at state fairs and in (vanishing) butcher’s shops. On the right, a diagram of Manhattan neighborhoods, of the type exhibited in guidebooks for tourists or (proliferating) apartment brokers’ offices. These are two very different things that merely look the same, aren’t they?

Read more: Meatropolis by Nicholas de Monchaux.