Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas | North Beach

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What makes a place? Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, 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, Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think about place. This event is a reading from the author and a chance to discuss with her all the ways in which SF’s changes can be mapped.

Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she explores the area thematically, writing about and mapping:

• SF 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rebecca Solnit is an activist, historian, art critic, and writer who lives in San Francisco. She is the author of numerous books including: Wanderlust: A History of Walking, A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A contributing editor to Harper’s, she frequently writes for the political site Tomdispatch.com and occasionally for the London Review of Books and the (U.K.) Guardian.

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