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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 Gomez-Pena, 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
"A joyous book."--San Francisco Chronicle "Inventive and affectionate."--New York Times Book Review "This nicely designed book offers a collection of essays and subject specific maps anyone who loves San Francisco will enjoy poring over."--Bookloons.com "Brilliantly disorients our native sense of place."--San Francisco Magazine "This is an amazing and thought-provoking book."--Geist
| Introduction: On the Inexhaustibility of a City | |
| The Names before the Names: The Indigenous Bay Area, 1769 | |
| "A Map the Size of the Land," by Lisa Conrad | |
| Green Women: The Open Spaces and Some Who Saved Them | |
| "Great Women and Green Spaces," by Richard Walker | |
| Cinema City: Muybridge Inventing Movies, Hitchcock Making Vertigo | |
| "The Eyes of the Gods," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| Right Wing of the Dove: The Bay Area as Conservative/Military Brain Trust | |
| "The Sinews of War Are Boundless Money," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| Monarchs and Queens: Butterfly Habitats and Queer Public Spaces | |
| "Full Spectrum," by Aaron Shurin | |
| Truth to Power: Race and Justice in the City's Heart | |
| "The City's Tangled Heart," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| Poison/Palate: The Bay Area in Your Body | |
| "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Gourmet," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| Shipyards and Sounds: The Black Bay Area since World War II | |
| "High Tide, Low Ebb," by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro | |
| Fillmore: Promenading the Boulevard of Gone | |
| "Little Pieces of Many Wars," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| 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 | |
| The Lost World: South of Market, 1960, before Redevelopment | |
| Piled Up, Scraped Away," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| The Mission: North of Home, South of Safe | |
| "The Geography of the Unseen," by Adriana Camarena | |
| Tribes of San Francisco: Their Comings and Goings | |
| "Who Washed Up on These Shores and Who the Tides Took Away," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| 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 | |
| Death and Beauty: A Year of Murders, a Noble Species of Tree | |
| "Red Sinking, Green Soaring," by Summer Brenner | |
| Four Hundred Years and Five Hundred Evictions in the City | |
| "Dwellers and Drifters in the Shaky City," by Heather Smith | |
| The World in a Cup: Coffee Economies and Ecologies | |
| "How to Get to Ethiopia from Ocean Beach," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| Phrenological San Francisco | |
| "City of Fourteen Bumps," by Paul La Farge | |
| Dharma Wheels and Fish Ladders: Salmon Migrations, Soto Zen Arrivals | |
| "A Way Home," by Genine Lentine | |
| Treasure Map: The Forty-Nine Jewels of San Francisco | |
| "From the Giant Camera Obscura to the Bayview Opera House," by Rebecca Solnit | |
| Once and Future Waters:Nineteenth-Century Bodies of Water, Twenty-Second-Century Shorelines | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Contributors | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780520262508
ISBN-10: 0520262506
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 166
Published: 29th November 2010
Dimensions (cm): 17.8 x 30.1
x 1.477
Weight (kg): 0.602
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