Infinite City

Description:

**"What makes a place?"** *Infinite City*, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning, culture and history in one locale, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers and cartographers, Solnit has compiled twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates San Francisco and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants..." (From the paperback jacket.)

subjects: American art,  cartography,  reference,  Atlases and Encyclopedias,  atlas,  San Francisco history,  history,  Californian History,  Maps,  California, maps,  San francisco bay area (calif.), description and travel,  San francisco bay area (calif.), history,  New York Times reviewed,  New york (n.y.), maps,  New orleans (la.), description and travel,  San francisco (calif.), description and travel,  Louisiana, maps,  New york (n.y.), description and travel

Places: San Francisco,  San Francisco Bay Area,  California