{"product_id":"infinite-city-rebecca-solnit-9780520262492","title":"Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas","description":"What makes a place? \u003ci\u003eInfinite City\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eVertigo.\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTRIBUTORS: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCartographers: Ben Pease and Shizue Seigel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesigner: Lia Tjandra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtists: 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriters and researchers: Summer Brenner, Adriana Camarena, Chris Carlsson, Lisa Conrad, Guillermo G mez-Pe a, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Paul La Farge, Genine Lentine, Stella Lochman, Aaron Shurin, Heather Smith, Richard Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdditional cartography: Darin Jensen; Robin Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, San Francisco Estuary Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Solnit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520262492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520262492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.04h x 6.96w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/05\/2010 pg. 12","brand":"Rebecca Solnit","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994862813439,"sku":"9780520262492","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36d2f95b-56f7-40e0-ad4b-d80f247e8137.jpg?v=1683332608","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/infinite-city-rebecca-solnit-9780520262492","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}