Queens and Western Tiger Swallowtails find common ground South of Market.
Your typical AAA map of San Francisco caters to the tourist of the fanny-pack toting, Ghirardelli-bound variety. For those in search of what the city has to offer beyond Coit Tower there is Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas , Rebecca Solnit’s forthcoming book containing 22 painstakingly researched, intricately drawn maps leading you through Bay Area’s eccentricities, both past and present.
Curious about where Alfred Hitchcock filmed Vertigo? Infinite City has a map for that. Interested in the shifting locations of queer public space or the lost industrial city of 1960? It’s got maps for that, too. Taking an anthropological approach to cartography, Solnit has incorporated people and time to the usual 2D depiction of space.
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, SFMOMA is issuing six broadside prints of selected maps—one each month through December—accompanied by various presentations, the schedule for which you can view here.
Done in the style of nineteenth-century commemorative maps, this map marks the Bay Area's protected green spaces, along with the women who helped make it happen.
This is certainly intriguing for lovers of San Francisco history. It is great to be reminded that there is always more to discover. The maps are like works of art. Beautiful.
Karen
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