Main entry:

Pease, Ben, cartographer.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

Description:

1 atlas (vii, 156 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm

Notes:
"[Atlas] of principal landmarks and treasures of the region, including butterfly 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: open spaces and their champions. "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 and the brains of war are in the Bay Area," / by Rebecca Solnit -- Map 5. Truth to power: race and justice in the city's heart. "The city's tangled heart," / by Rebecca Solnit -- Map 6. Monarchs and queens: butterfly habitats and queer public spaces. "Full spectrum," / by Aaron Shurin -- 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 a.m. 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. Who am I where? Quién soy dónde?: A map of contingent identities and circumstantial memories / by Rebecca Solnit and Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Map 15. Tribes of San Francisco: their comings and goings. "Who washed up on these shores and who the tides took away," / by Rebecca Solnit -- Map 16. Death and beauty: all of 2008's ninety-nine murders, some of 2009's Monterey cypresses. "Red sinking, green soaring," / by Summer Brenner --Map 17. Four hundred years and five hundred evictions. "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.

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." -- Publisher's description

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780520262492 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520262492 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520262508 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520262506 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) Maps.
San Francisco (Calif.) Maps.
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) kartor.
California San Francisco
California San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Area.
San Francisco kartor.

Form/genre:

Atlases.
atlases.
Maps
Atlas.

Added entries:

Solnit, Rebecca, author.
Seigel, Shizue, cartographer.
Pease, Ben
Siegel, Shizue.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270826
Call No.: BIB 203667
Status: Available