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fbroom's review
This is probably not what I thought it would be. It’s a collection of essays about the bay area spanning topics like Mission Dolores, Women of the Bay Area and so on. I did like how each article was accompanied by a map showing all the points/places, the article is referring to. The essays contain some historical information, some personal opinions, nostalgia and so on. I wasn’t a big fan of the essays. I’ll read this again or at least some of the essays and maybe I’ll discover something new or different.
ajkhn's review
5.0
It's a good book about a city that tells you enough about a city to make you feel like you get it, but leave you wanting to find out much, much, more.
Semi-serious cartography is pretty much right in my wheelhouse anyways. But the 20some maps in Infinite City serve as two dozen lenses through which to see the city. I'm still new here, and still figuring out my lens.
So it's nice to have a few backups until I figure it out. And it's probably the most honest look at this city I've found: Pretty cool, very full of itself, more provincial than it thinks, and stuck in a generation or two's past. Not that any of that is a bad thing.
Semi-serious cartography is pretty much right in my wheelhouse anyways. But the 20some maps in Infinite City serve as two dozen lenses through which to see the city. I'm still new here, and still figuring out my lens.
So it's nice to have a few backups until I figure it out. And it's probably the most honest look at this city I've found: Pretty cool, very full of itself, more provincial than it thinks, and stuck in a generation or two's past. Not that any of that is a bad thing.
luisvilla's review
5.0
This is an atlas in the same way One Hundred Years of Solitude is a story about a village. Which is to say it covers so much history, in so many crazy ways, and is so unlike any other story or map you’ve ever seen, that it becomes very hard to summarize. Not for everyone, and not a good starting place to learn about the city. But nevertheless something I love and think is worth flipping through for anyone trying to find the stories that can bring a city to life.
chadstep's review
5.0
This has become my new go-to book for San Francisco insider knowledge with essays that capture the essence of the City.
anniew415's review
4.0
Very enjoyable, quirky history of San Francisco with beautifully-illustrated maps throughout. A great gift for San Francisco natives, or people new to the city.
superdilettante's review
5.0
I don't think I would have known about this if Annie Yu hadn't made a blog post about the maps project.