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Infinite city: a San Francisco atlas
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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.
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9780520262508
9780520262492
9780520262492