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this book is a reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus voices, including geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city's remarkable musicians, prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and Native voices, and local(...)
Architectural Plans and Cartography
October 2013
Unfathomable city : a New Orleans atlas
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this book is a reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus voices, including geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city's remarkable musicians, prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and Native voices, and local experts, as well as the coauthors’ contributions.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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''Nonstop Metropolis'', the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts—from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists—amplified by cartographers, artists, and(...)
Architectural Plans and Cartography
October 2016
Nonstop metropolis: a New York City atlas
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''Nonstop Metropolis'', the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts—from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists—amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through Manhattan’s playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that,(...)
Recollections of my nonexistence: a memoir
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In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer–books themselves; the gay community that presented a new model of what else gender, family, and joy could mean; and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West.
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''Hollow City'' surveys San Francisco's transformation—skyrocketing residential and commercial rents that are driving out artists, activists, nonprofit organizations and the poor; the homogenization of the city's architecture, industries and population; the decay of its public life; and the erasure of its sites of civic memory.
Hollow city: the siege of San Francisco and the crisis of American urbanism
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''Hollow City'' surveys San Francisco's transformation—skyrocketing residential and commercial rents that are driving out artists, activists, nonprofit organizations and the poor; the homogenization of the city's architecture, industries and population; the decay of its public life; and the erasure of its sites of civic memory.
Urban Theory
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In this collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat(...)
Call them by their true names: American crises (and essays)
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In this collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change. The work of changing the world sometimes requires changing the story, the names, and inventing or popularizing new names and terms and phrases. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.
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Qui a été historiquement réduit au silence, et pourquoi ? Comment les femmes et les minorités sont-elles parvenues à récupérer, ou non, leur parole ? En quoi un changement politique est-il avant tout un changement de récit ?Pour répondre à ces questions, Rebecca Solnit balaye un grand nombre de sujets, de l'histoire des droits civiques et de l'esclavage à la culture du(...)
La mère de toutes les questions
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Qui a été historiquement réduit au silence, et pourquoi ? Comment les femmes et les minorités sont-elles parvenues à récupérer, ou non, leur parole ? En quoi un changement politique est-il avant tout un changement de récit ?Pour répondre à ces questions, Rebecca Solnit balaye un grand nombre de sujets, de l'histoire des droits civiques et de l'esclavage à la culture du viol dans les campus américains, en passant par la masculinité toxique.On retrouve ici la vivacité d'esprit de l'auteure, son opiniâtreté à déjouer tout ce qui, dans la culture, dans les institutions, dans la sphère publique, entend amoindrir la parole des femmes et réduire leur place. Rebecca Solnit met au jour les normes sous-jacentes contenues dans nos discours.
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises(...)
Whose story is this? Essays at the intersection
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
Critical Theory
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In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—have compiled three 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—San Francisco, New Orleans, and New(...)
Inifinite cities: a trilogy of Atlases. San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
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In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—have compiled three 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—San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York—as experienced by its different inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that make up urban life.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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These photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America's conception of wilderness, examining how the place was appropriated by its early Euro-American visitors and showing how conceptions of landscape have altered and how land has changed, or not, over time.
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Yosemite in time: ice ages, tree clocks, ghost rivers
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These photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America's conception of wilderness, examining how the place was appropriated by its early Euro-American visitors and showing how conceptions of landscape have altered and how land has changed, or not, over time.
Gardens
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A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her journey through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made up of great tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Her observations carve a new route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
A book of migrations: some passages in Ireland
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A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her journey through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made up of great tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Her observations carve a new route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
Landscape Theory