Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City is an amalgamation of maps and their blank spaces. “Just as a bookshelf can jam together widely different books, each book a small box opening onto a different world, so seemed the buildings of my city; every row of houses and shops brought near many kinds of abundance, opened onto many mysteries” (Solnit, 5) People look at a library with the uniform expectation there are books inside, similarly People choose to look at the bay area with pre conceived notions of “San Francisco values”. However there are mysteries to San Francisco and such maps as Solnit’s Green Woman Map and Right Wing Of The Dove Map connect the very different worlds of two maps to remind readers its all one greater story about the same space. “maps are fixed in time and include only features considered relatively permanent” (Turchi,
Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City is an amalgamation of maps and their blank spaces. “Just as a bookshelf can jam together widely different books, each book a small box opening onto a different world, so seemed the buildings of my city; every row of houses and shops brought near many kinds of abundance, opened onto many mysteries” (Solnit, 5) People look at a library with the uniform expectation there are books inside, similarly People choose to look at the bay area with pre conceived notions of “San Francisco values”. However there are mysteries to San Francisco and such maps as Solnit’s Green Woman Map and Right Wing Of The Dove Map connect the very different worlds of two maps to remind readers its all one greater story about the same space. “maps are fixed in time and include only features considered relatively permanent” (Turchi,