Bay lexicon / Jane Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shorelines--California--San Francisco Bay.

Shorelines.

Landscapes--California--San Francisco Bay.

Landscapes.

San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Environmental conditions.

San Francisco Bay (Calif.).

San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Geography.

San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Geography--Terminology.

Ecology.

Geography.

Pacific Ocean--San Francisco Bay.

California.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

182 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us. We lack the vocabulary to describe our surroundings, and this lack of understanding limits our ability as citizens to contribute to political decisions about the landscape of cities, especially at the edges where land meets water. Bay Lexicon, a field guide to San Francisco's shoreline, is a case study in establishing a working language for hybrid landscapes. Centred on a walk along the edge of the iconic San Francisco Bay, it documents, deciphers, and classifies the places and phenomena a person encounters--and the forces, histories, and interactions that underlie what is visible. In a unique synthesis of text and drawing, Jane Wolff applies analytical and representational tools based in design and documentary work to findings from the fields of geography, environmental and cultural history, public policy, urban ecology, and landscape studies. As our cities face increasing pressure caused by climate change, we will need to reimagine them in terms that do justice to their complexity. Bay Lexicon's methods for building landscape literacy are meant for translation, adaptation, and use far beyond San Francisco Bay. Through activist scholarship that cuts across disciplinary boundaries and levels of expertise, this book examines how the landscape at the water's edge works, documents its historical evolution, brings its citizens' values to light, and frames conversations about how and why it might change."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Keywords 1 Territory and Terrain

Land

Water

Keywords 2 The Natural Sciences

Physics

Chemistry

Biology

Keywords 3 Landscape as Resource

Defense

Commerce

Keywords 4 Means of Domestication, Settlement, Urbanization

Navigation

Construction

Infrastructure

Keywords 5 Life from Day to Day

Work

Play

Keywords 6 Time

Interval

Souvenir

A Field Guide to the Edge of the Bay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wolff, Jane. Bay lexicon.

ISBN:

9780228006855

0228006856

OCLC:

1201656122