Infinite City
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Rebecca Solnit
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Rebecca Solnit
About this book
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
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A Map the Size of the Land Lisa Conrad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Great Women and Green Spaces Richard Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Eyes of the Gods Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Sinews of War Are Boundless Money and the Brains of War Are in the Bay Area Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The City’s Tangled Heart Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Full Spectrum Aaron Shurin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Gourmet Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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High Tide, Low Ebb Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Little Pieces of Many Wars Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Smell of Ten Thousand Gallons of Mayonnaise and a Hundred Tons of Coffee Chris Carlsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Piled Up, Scraped Away Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Geography of the Unseen Adriana Camarena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Who Washed Up on These Shores and Who the Tides Took Away Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Red Sinking, Green Soaring Summer Brenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Dwellers and Drifters in the Shaky City Heather Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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How to Get to Ethiopia from Ocean Beach Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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City of Fourteen Bumps Paul La Farge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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A Way Home Genine Lentine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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From the Giant Camera Obscura to the Bayview Opera House Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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map 22. Once and Future Waters: Nineteenth-Century Bodies of Water, Twenty-Second-Century Shorelines
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