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 include: 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 and Sunaura Taylor; Writers and researchers -
Summer Brenner, Adriana Camarena, Chris Carlsson, Lisa Conrad,
Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Paul La Farge, Genine
Lentine, Stella Lochman, Aaron Shurin, Heather Smith and Richard
Walker; and, Additional cartography - Darin Jensen, Robin
Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, as well as San Francisco Estuary
Institute.
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