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I was born and raised in the Oakland/ San Francisco Bay Area, living elsewhere in the country right now but this book brought my home right back to me. The atlas reminded me of childhood things like the canneries my mother worked in and the cast iron penny bank my father brought me from an excavating job he was on in the 1950s. I later discovered that bank was buried in the rubble of a building at the time of the great earthquake. If you know the bay you know it's sights, sounds and the blood that runs through it, if you're born there it's always with you and sometimes if you only lived there for a little while. It's history is filled with seekers, adventurers, dreamers and villians. Great calm and great calamity. Most of all it made me think of a place as an atlas. Any place is more than it's present appearance, this was an adventure in thinking differently and was written so beautifully it could only have been done by someone who knows the city's heart and soul, warts and all. I will definately read this over and over.


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Infinite City A San Francisco Atlas Rebecca Solnit 9780520262508 Books Reviews

It has been awhile since a book captivated me to the point that I felt compelled to read it in one sitting. With beautifully executed maps and insightful essays, Rebecca Solnit and her collaborators have created a thought provoking study of the Bay Area in general and San Francisco in particular.
Rebecca Solnit is just about my favorite author, and here she makes good use of a great idea create an atlas of San Francisco that maps the social history of the place. The maps, with accompanying essays, show us notable women in the area's environmental causes, the confluence of Eadweard Muybridge and Alfred Hitchcock, and many more. Well designed, entertaining and thoughtful. Well worth it.
Rebecca Solnit offers a new view of San Francisco, past & present. She has captured the societal heart of the city by presenting the facts, people, culture and most importantly, its transitions. San Francisco's nature is to change. A recitation of facts won't portray who we are. The maps and text engage the reader, inspiring thought about the makeup of the city, our successes and issues. I was born and raised in San Francisco and this book has brought back more memories than any other I have read. I flashed on watching Lawrence of Arabia at the Roosevelt Theater with my folks. I smelled the hand-made corn tortillas we bought in the Mission and recalled our rich Hispanic culture of the 1950s with the remnants of the Irish and German working class in our neighborhood. It brought back walking down Fillmore and marveling at the continuing change and dressing up to go Downtown.

Infinite City is one of a short list of books that should be owned by San Franciscans, admirers of the city and inhabitants of the greater Bay Area. It's the perfect companion for the stories in San Francisco's Lost Landmarks
Anyone who wants to learn about San Francisco on a level much deeper than any magazine article, blog, or newspaper-- BUY THIS! It is incredible. I just moved to SF in September, and I really wanted to dive into some unique history and stories about this city. This book was the answer. It's a great conversation piece and also a great way to plan adventures throughout San Francisco.
Not what I expected. A strange collection of places and things in SF.
The beautiful "Infinite City" belongs on any list of essential San Francisco books. Rebecca Solnit and her collaborators have taken a core sample of the endless layers of San Francisco history and laid it out in twenty-two brilliantly imagined maps and eighteen essays exploring the city's history, geography, demography, biology, and myth. "Infinite City" is vast enough to encompass the Coliseum, Coronet and Alexandria theaters; the Pipevine swallowtail, Satyr anglewing, and Orange sulfur butterflies; the Yelamu, Aramai, and Urebure peoples; the "McKittrick Hotel", "Argosy Book Shop", and Ernie's; Josephine McCrackin, Carrie Stevens Walter, and Barbara Eastman; Bechtel, RoboteX, and Jeppesen; Jimbo's Bop City, Ann's 440, and the Six Gallery; Acme Export Packing, the Pacific Far East Line, and Triple A Machine Shop; and the Richmond Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. The book itself is as lovingly designed as anything McSweeney's has published, proof that until we stop needing tactile pleasures, the screen will never replace the page.
This is one of the best books about San Francisco --
if you want more than the usual tourist information.
It is smart, compelling, and full of very well-designed
and interesting maps.
The author provides a fascinating mix of history and contemporary information,
and strives to provide readers with more than the standard historical accounts.
Best of all, she includes information that only the most observant,
keen-minded inhabitant would know and experience.
Smart, funny, useful . . . really, it's the best.
I was born and raised in the Oakland/ San Francisco Bay Area, living elsewhere in the country right now but this book brought my home right back to me. The atlas reminded me of childhood things like the canneries my mother worked in and the cast iron penny bank my father brought me from an excavating job he was on in the 1950s. I later discovered that bank was buried in the rubble of a building at the time of the great earthquake. If you know the bay you know it's sights, sounds and the blood that runs through it, if you're born there it's always with you and sometimes if you only lived there for a little while. It's history is filled with seekers, adventurers, dreamers and villians. Great calm and great calamity. Most of all it made me think of a place as an atlas. Any place is more than it's present appearance, this was an adventure in thinking differently and was written so beautifully it could only have been done by someone who knows the city's heart and soul, warts and all. I will definately read this over and over.