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PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520262492

ISBN-139780520262492

eBay Product ID (ePID)84325609

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Book TitleInfinite City : a San Francisco Atlas

Number of Pages166 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Earth Sciences / Geography, Maps & Road Atlases (See Also Reference / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps), American / General, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa)

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Travel, Science, History

AuthorRebecca Solnit

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight27.3 Oz

Item Length12 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-019735

Dewey Edition22

Reviews_A handsome collection of thought-provoking and delightful maps that show us many takes on a city that_s hidden before our eyes._, _Smart and creative and perhaps even revolutionary. You'll never see San Francisco the same way again._, This nicely designed book offers a collection of essays and subject specific maps anyone who loves San Francisco will enjoy poring over., _A whole new kind of atlas, one with inventive maps and well-researched text that makes unexpected connections, and thereby rewrites the history and reshapes the character of this famous city and the surrounding area. . . . Solnit has expanded the definition of what a book can be and how a story can be told in a mesmerizing, revolutionary new way._, A gorgeously published book . . . After you have finished savoring this book, which deserves to be read slowly and thoughtfully, you feel like you have been living for decades in San Francisco., A richly textured graphic book that no electronic format can master yet, Infinite City features Rebecca Solnit as cultural and historical tour guide through the city she calls home., "This nicely designed book offers a collection of essays and subject specific maps anyone who loves San Francisco will enjoy poring over."-- Bookloons.com, "A richly textured graphic book that no electronic format can master yet, Infinite City features Rebecca Solnit as cultural and historical tour guide through the city she calls home."--Shelf Awareness, _Solnit takes us on a tour that will change the way we think about place. Breathtakingly original, with its seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures, this atlas of the imagination invites us to search out layers of the city that carry meaning for us._, "A richly textured graphic book that no electronic format can master yet, Infinite City features Rebecca Solnit as cultural and historical tour guide through the city she calls home."-- Shelf Awareness

Dewey Decimal912.7946

Table Of ContentIntroduction: On the Inexhaustibility of a City Map 1. The Names before the Names: The Indigenous Bay Area, 1769 "A Map the Size of the Land," by Lisa Conrad Map 2. Green Women: The Open Spaces and Some Who Saved Them "Great Women and Green Spaces," by Richard Walker Map 3. Cinema City: Muybridge Inventing Movies, Hitchcock Making Vertigo "The Eyes of the Gods," by Rebecca Solnit Map 4. Right Wing of the Dove: The Bay Area as Conservative/Military Brain Trust "The Sinews of War Are Boundless Money," by Rebecca Solnit Map 5. Monarchs and Queens: Butterfly Habitats and Queer Public Spaces "Full Spectrum," by Aaron Shurin Map 6. Truth to Power: Race and Justice in the City's Heart "The City's Tangled Heart," by Rebecca Solnit Map 7. Poison/Palate: The Bay Area in Your Body "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Gourmet," by Rebecca Solnit Map 8. Shipyards and Sounds: The Black Bay Area since World War II "High Tide, Low Ebb," by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Map 9. Fillmore: Promenading the Boulevard of Gone "Little Pieces of Many Wars," by Rebecca Solnit Map 10. Third Street Phantom Coast: A Map by Alison Pebworth Map 11. Graveyard Shift: The Lost Industrial City of 1960 and the Remnant 6 AM Bars The Smell of Ten Thousand Gallons of Mayonnaise and a Hundred Tons of Coffee, by Chris Carlsson Map 12. The Lost World: South of Market, 1960, before Redevelopment Piled Up, Scraped Away," by Rebecca Solnit Map 13. The Mission: North of Home, South of Safe "The Geography of the Unseen," by Adriana Camarena Map 14. Tribes of San Francisco: Their Comings and Goings "Who Washed Up on These Shores and Who the Tides Took Away," by Rebecca Solnit Map 15. Who Am I Where? ¿Quién soy dónde?: A Map of Contingent Identities "Who Am I Where? ¿Quién soy dónde?" by Rebecca Solnit and Guillermo Gómez-Peña Map 16. Death and Beauty: A Year of Murders, a Noble Species of Tree "Red Sinking, Green Soaring," by Summer Brenner Map 17. Four Hundred Years and Five Hundred Evictions in the City "Dwellers and Drifters in the Shaky City," by Heather Smith Map 18. The World in a Cup: Coffee Economies and Ecologies "How to Get to Ethiopia from Ocean Beach," by Rebecca Solnit Map 19. Phrenological San Francisco "City of Fourteen Bumps," by Paul La Farge Map 20. Dharma Wheels and Fish Ladders: Salmon Migrations, Soto Zen Arrivals "A Way Home," by Genine Lentine Map 21. Treasure Map: The Forty-Nine Jewels of San Francisco "From the Giant Camera Obscura to the Bayview Opera House," by Rebecca Solnit Map 22. Once and Future Waters:Nineteenth-Century Bodies of Water, Twenty-Second-Century Shorelines Acknowledgments Contributors

SynopsisWhat makes a place? Infinite City , Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants, Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think about place. She explores the area thematically--connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo. Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures--butterfly habitats, queer sites, murders, World War II shipyards, blues clubs, Zen Buddhist centers. She roams the political terrain, both progressive and conservative, and details the cultural geographies of the Mission District, the culture wars of the Fillmore, the South of Market world being devoured by redevelopment, and much, much more. Breathtakingly original, this atlas of the imagination invites us to search out the layers of San Francisco that carry meaning for us--or to discover our own infinite city, be it Cleveland, Toulouse, or Shanghai. CONTRIBUTORS: Cartographers: Ben Pease and Shizue Seigel Designer: Lia Tjandra Artists: Sandow Birk, Mona Caron, Jaime Cortez, Hugh D'Andrade, Robert Dawson, Paz de la Calzada, Jim Herrington, Ira Nowinski, Alison Pebworth, Michael Rauner, Gent Sturgeon, Sunaura Taylor Writers and researchers: Summer Brenner, Adriana Camarena, Chris Carlsson, Lisa Conrad, Guillermo G mez-Pe a, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Paul La Farge, Genine Lentine, Stella Lochman, Aaron Shurin, Heather Smith, Richard Walker Additional cartography: Darin Jensen; Robin Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, San Francisco Estuary Institute, What makes a place? Infinite City , Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants, Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think about place. She explores the area thematically--connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo. Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures--butterfly habitats, queer sites, murders, World War II shipyards, blues clubs, Zen Buddhist centers. She roams the political terrain, both progressive and conservative, and details the cultural geographies of the Mission District, the culture wars of the Fillmore, the South of Market world being devoured by redevelopment, and much, much more. Breathtakingly original, this atlas of the imagination invites us to search out the layers of San Francisco that carry meaning for us--or to discover our own infinite city, be it Cleveland, Toulouse, or Shanghai. CONTRIBUTORS: Cartographers: Ben Pease and Shizue Seigel Designer: Lia Tjandra Artists: Sandow Birk, Mona Caron, Jaime Cortez, Hugh D'Andrade, Robert Dawson, Paz de la Calzada, Jim Herrington, Ira Nowinski, Alison Pebworth, Michael Rauner, Gent Sturgeon, Sunaura Taylor Writers and researchers: Summer Brenner, Adriana Camarena, Chris Carlsson, Lisa Conrad, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Paul La Farge, Genine Lentine, Stella Lochman, Aaron Shurin, Heather Smith, Richard Walker Additional cartography: Darin Jensen; Robin Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, San Francisco Estuary Institute

LC Classification NumberG1527.S22S6 2010