Infinite City : A San Francisco Atlas / Rebecca Solnit; ed. by Rebecca Solnit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solnit, Rebecca, Author.

Contributor:

Brenner, Summer, Contributor.

Camarena, Adriana, Contributor.

Carlsson, Chris, Contributor.

Conrad, Lisa, Contributor.

Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua, Contributor.

LaFarge, Paul, Contributor.

Lentine, Genine, Contributor.

Shurin, Aaron, Contributor.

Smith, Heather, Contributor.

Solnit, Rebecca, Contributor.

Solnit, Rebecca, Editor.

Walker, Richard, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 SeigelDesigner: Lia TjandraArtists: 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 TaylorWriters 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 WalkerAdditional cartography: Darin Jensen; Robin Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. On the Inexhaustibility of a City ...

map 1. The Names before the Names: The Indigenous Bay Area, 1769

map 2. Green Women: Open Spaces and Their Champions

map 3. Cinema City: Muybridge Inventing Movies, Hitchcock Making Vertigo

map 4. Right Wing of the Dove: The Bay Area as Conservative/Military Brain Trust

map 5. Truth to Power: Race and Justice in the City’s Heart

map 6. Monarchs and Queens: Butterfly Habitats and Queer Public Spaces

map 7. Poison/Palate: The Bay Area in Your Body

map 8. Shipyards and Sounds: The Black Bay Area since World War II

map 9. Fillmore: Promenading the Boulevard of Gone

map 10. Third Street Phantom Coast

map 11. Graveyard Shift: The Lost Industrial City of 1960 and the Remnant 6 a.m. Bars

map 12. The Lost World: South of Market, 1960, before Redevelopment

map 13. The Mission: North of Home, South of Safe

map 14. Who Am I Where? ¿Quién soy dónde?: A Map of Contingent Identities and Circumstantial Memories

map 15. Tribes of San Francisco: Their Comings and Goings

map 16. Death and Beauty: All of 2008’s Ninety-nine Murders, Some of 2009’s Monterey Cypresses

map 17. Four Hundred Years and Five Hundred Evictions

map 18. The World in a Cup: Coffee Economies and Ecologies

map 19. Phrenological San Francisco

map 20. Dharma Wheels and Fish Ladders: Salmon Migrations, Soto Zen Arrivals

map 21. Treasure Map: The Forty-Nine Jewels of San Francisco

map 22. Once and Future Waters: Nineteenth-Century Bodies of Water, Twenty-Second-Century Shorelines

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9780520352667

0520352661

OCLC:

1511483972