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Infinite Cities
A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
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Ideal for readers interested in urban history, cartography, cultural studies, and anyone fascinated by the complex narratives that shape major American cities.
Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by its different inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that make up urban life.
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"The maps themselves are things of beauty."—The New York Times
Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, from Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit—aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—has compiled three stunning atlases that have radically changed the way we think about place. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by its different inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that make up urban life.
This three-volume paperback set contains:
- The original, gorgeously designed atlases—Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas; and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
- Three new and updated, full-colour, fold-out posters for each city, including the popular “City of Women” map
- A new and thoughtful essay by Rebecca Solnit reflecting on the project ten years after the publication of the first atlas
A stunning collection, this boxed set is a perfect treasury of imagination and insight, a rich people’s history of these infinite cities.
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Praised by the Washington Post for interspersing historical, cultural, and biographical essays with striking photographs and maps that revise our understanding of America's iconic cities. America: The Jesuit Review highlights the atlases' masterful depiction of technological progress and its costs, portraying the cities through populist, communitarian stories that challenge traditional atlas perspectives.
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ISBN: 9780520314290
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 3 new maps, 138 color illustrations, 14 b-w photographs
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 64.0mm
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 305.0mm
Weight: 2540g
Pages: 574
About the Author
Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. She is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, and hope and disaster. These include the recent Men Explain Things to Me and The Mother of All Questions. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer, writer, and regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World. Rebecca Snedeker is an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker and writer whose work supports human rights, creative expression, and her native city, New Orleans.
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