Historical Ecologists contribute to Rebecca Solnit's "Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas"

Robin Grossinger, Ruth Askevold, and Chuck Striplen contributed to Rebecca Solnit’s new book Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, published by the University of California Press in November. Solnit describes the city in a series of wide-ranging essays and maps. Robin and Ruth provided data to develop the map entitled “Once and Future Waters: Nineteenth-Century Bodies of Water, Twenty-Second-Century Shorelines” (a map depicting the historical San Francisco shoreline based on SFEI information and the effect of rising sea level on the contemporary shoreline, from the USGS research on climate change). Chuck helped advise on the map of tribe names around the bay, in a map called “The Names Before the Names: The Indigenous Bay Area, 1769”.

For more information or to purchase the Atlas, visit UC Press

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Saturday, December 11, 2010
3:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater

Join us for a trip back in time. This program reveals the South of Market neighborhood's many faces and phases, as local experts take us backwards through the neighborhood's many histories. Before the museums and convention centers there were leather-clad punk rockers; anti-gentrification protests and even riots; SRO havens; and the Third Street of Jack Kerouac and Jack London. We revisit the rich Filipino cultural history of the neighborhood and look back to the days when Mission Bay was actually a bay.

Ruth Askevold, cartographic specialist, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Chris Carlsson, writer
Estella Habal, historian
Carl Nolte, writer
Ira Nowinski, photographer
David Solnit, activist
Rebecca Solnit, writer