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Infinite city : a San Francisco atlas / by Rebecca Solnit ; with cartographers, Ben Pease, Shizue Siegel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MapMapPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 atlas (vii, 156 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520262508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 912.7946 SOL 23 013847
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Contents:
"[Atlas] of principal landmarks and treasures of the region, including butterly species, queer sites, murders, coffee, water, power, contingent identities, social types, libraries, early morning bars, the lost labor landscape of 1960, and the monumental Monterey cypresses of San Francisco; of indigenous place names, women environmentalists, toxins, food sites, right wing organizations, World War II shipyards, Zen Buddhist centers, salmon migration, and musical histories of the Bay Area; with details of cultural geogrpahies of the Mission District, the Fillmore's culture wars and metamorphoses, the racial discourses of the United Nations Plaza, the south of Market world that redevelpment devoured, and other significant phenomena, vanished and extant."
Summary: 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? {iquest}Qui{acute}en soy d{acute}onde? : A map of contingent identities /​ by Rebecca Solnit and Guillermo G{acute}omez-Pe{tilde}na 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.
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"[Atlas] of principal landmarks and treasures of the region, including butterly species, queer sites, murders, coffee, water, power, contingent identities, social types, libraries, early morning bars, the lost labor landscape of 1960, and the monumental Monterey cypresses of San Francisco; of indigenous place names, women environmentalists, toxins, food sites, right wing organizations, World War II shipyards, Zen Buddhist centers, salmon migration, and musical histories of the Bay Area; with details of cultural geogrpahies of the Mission District, the Fillmore's culture wars and metamorphoses, the racial discourses of the United Nations Plaza, the south of Market world that redevelpment devoured, and other significant phenomena, vanished and extant."

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? {iquest}Qui{acute}en soy d{acute}onde? : A map of contingent identities /​ by Rebecca Solnit and Guillermo G{acute}omez-Pe{tilde}na
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.

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