This series invites you on a fascinating journey through cities that exist on the border between reality and fantasy. Each volume reveals a unique, often surreal world with its own rules and inhabitants. It is an engaging exploration of urbanism, identity, and human imagination, drawing readers into labyrinths of unexpected discoveries. If you enjoy novel perspectives on familiar and unfamiliar places, this series is for you.
This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.
Exploring the San Francisco Bay Area, this innovative atlas delves into the complex layers of meaning that define a place. Through the collaboration of artists, writers, and cartographers, the book features twenty-two stunning color maps that reveal the city from various perspectives. Solnit's work invites readers to reconsider their understanding of location and experience, transforming the concept of an atlas into a rich narrative of interconnected lives and landscapes.
Presents twenty-two color maps and accompanying essays providing details on the people, ecology, and culture of the city.
What makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo.