Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 181 mm x 303 mm, Gewicht: 596 g
A San Francisco Atlas
Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 181 mm x 303 mm, Gewicht: 596 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-26250-8
Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
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 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, Sunaura Taylor
Writers 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 Walker
Additional cartography: Darin Jensen; Robin Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: On the Inexhaustibility of a City
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? ¿Quién soy dónde?: A Map of Contingent Identities
“Who Am I Where? ¿Quién soy dónde?” by Rebecca Solnit and Guillermo Gómez-Peña
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
Acknowledgments
Contributors
