Upper Left Cities: A Cultural Atlas of San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle (Urban Infographic Atlases) - Hardcover

Shobe, Hunter; Banis, David

 
9781632171825: Upper Left Cities: A Cultural Atlas of San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle (Urban Infographic Atlases)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1632171821 ISBN 13: 9781632171825
Verlag: Sasquatch Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Compare and contrast San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle through 150 innovative infographic maps that blend traditional cartography with modern graphic design.

Upper Left Cities redefines modern cartography by going into uncharted territory to create a narrative about three great cities through informative and detailed infographic maps.

Explore and compare San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle through:

   • wildlife and city trails
   • voting records
   • commutes
   • marathon routes
   • food and drink patterns
From the team that brought you Portlandness, this cultural atlas includes more than 150 maps, each using data around a given topic and then translating that to a creative and often unexpected visual format. The result is a perfect blend of form and function, each map is meticulously and ingeniously designed.

The collection of maps cover:

   • history
   • geography
   • social and economic issues
   • pop culture

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

HUNTER SHOBE is a cultural geographer and assistant professor at Portland State University. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Oregon and has more than twenty years of experience researching the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of how people connect to places and environments. Past studies focused on diverse topics, including the role of Football Club Barcelona in constructing urban identity in Barcelona, and national identity in Catalonia.

DAVID BANIS has managed the Center for Spatial Analysis and Research in the Geography Department at Portland State University since 2006, working with a wide variety of partners at the federal, state, and local levels. His work explores the diverse ways that cartographers can tell stories with maps, focusing on the mapping of nontraditional subjects.

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PREFACE
This book grew out of our previous title, Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas, in which we concentrated exclusively on the city where we live. After we finished the book, people asked us if there would be a sequel. Maybe another book about Portland? Or possibly one about other cities? We decided to do both.

After spending years mapping and writing about one city, we resolved to compare cities. We were curious about how the big cities on the West Coast were alike and how they differed. Initially we wanted to include Oakland, California, and Vancouver, BC, but we decided to focus our efforts on San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, the major West Coast cities in the northern part of the United States—or what we call the Upper Left.

We attempt to blend academic and popular styles, which is a difficult balance to strike. We hope to bring academic research to people who don’t usually read geography and urban studies journals, and bring storytelling and graphics to people who do.

Each of us has personal connections to these cities.

Hunter traces his personal Upper Left connections to the summer of 1994. That year he had tickets to World Cup games at Stanford Stadium and the Rose Bowl. So he drove from Washington, DC, and spent the summer traveling around California, Oregon, and Washington with a couple of friends. This was his first time west of the Mississippi. Just before the Nevada–California border, Hunter made his buddies pull over on the shoulder of the highway so that he could walk, rather than drive, across the state line to commemorate his first time in California.

Hunter visited San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle on this trip. A few months later, he moved to San Francisco, where he lived until the fall of 1998. In the twenty-plus years since, he has returned for days, weeks, and months at a time. From San Francisco, Hunter moved to Eugene, Oregon, to attend graduate school. He began to visit friends in Seattle every year. In the summer of 2006, he moved to Portland to teach at Portland State University. The Upper Left cities became personally stitched together when he met his wife (who grew up north of Seattle) on a blind date in Portland set up by mutual friends from San Francisco. 

In researching this book, Hunter covered hundreds of miles (and wore through several pairs of Sambas) walking across the three cities. The initial idea for an atlas comparing multiple cities came to him on his four-mile walking commute to campus.

David spent his formative years in Southern California, but he has called the Upper Left home ever since. He went to college at UC Berkeley and spent his early working life in the Bay Area, and continues to visit family there regularly. An engineering job at Boeing led him to Seattle, just as the New York Times began fawning over the city, Starbucks went corporate, and the grunge era dawned.

David was drawn to Portland for graduate studies in geography at Portland State University, again just as the rest of the country was discovering the city. He managed to stick around the Portland State geography department after grad school, where he teaches courses on cartography and geographic information systems. With a population of almost 2.5 million people, Portland is the smallest metro area in which David has lived. He enjoys the charming small-town feel of inner-city Portland, while at the same time loving the energy and intensity of Seattle and the Bay Area. Like many a confirmed urbanite, he escapes the city to the mountains, or some other place without many people, every chance he gets.

Collaborator Zuriel has lived in the orbits of San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle for most of her life. She grew up in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon, about 245 miles away from Portland, one of the closest major cities. Seattle, though slightly farther afield, formed more of Zuriel’s earliest impressions of city life. She took family trips to Seattle, where she visited her uncle and developed an affinity for  bumptious gulls, endless drizzle, and Chinese seafood soups.

In adolescence, Zuriel moved from a town of about 650 people in rural Oregon to the bustling Bay Area, replacing pine trees with parking lots. Zuriel met her husband, Jonathan, while attending UC Berkeley. After graduation, and in search of a city with less bustle, more pine trees, and gloomier winters, they settled in Portland, where they have been ever since.

Like the three of us, everyone who worked on this atlas has deep connections to one or more of these cities. The result is that many perspectives are mixed into and shaped this book. While knowing that we could never include everything, through collaboration we hoped to explore as many features and connections of these cities as possible.

This is a book about San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, but also a book about cities in general. We invite readers to reconsider their own blocks, neighborhoods, and cities and their many and varied connections.

This book came together with the contributions of students, alums, and colleagues at Portland State University, Portland Community College, and beyond. We all hold a deep respect for San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, as well as for the people who live and work there. The responsibility of representing places in these three cities is one we took very seriously, even when adopting more playful themes and tones. Our goal was to display respect on every page.

Our team spent several years making this atlas, completing the final proofs in March 2020. We were on track for a fall 2020 release (or so we thought). The book was done. A few weeks later, COVID-19 upended lives throughout the United States, as it already had in places throughout the world. So much changed. This included our publication schedule which called for the book’s release to be delayed a year.

By the fall of 2020, we realized that the book was not done. It needed updates (the election pages, wildfires) and the addition of new topics (COVID-19 and protests). Forced to work quickly we made the additions and revisions as best we could. Most of the book is a snapshot of these cities just before the coronavirus struck. We hope this serves as a reference point for considering what has changed since. 

INTRODUCTION: UPPER LEFT
This atlas explores San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle through maps, graphics, essays, and photos. While not exhaustive, this is a wide-ranging collection of stories about these cities and how they compare, contrast, and connect. This is not a guidebook, but rather a guide to thinking geographically and creatively about places and how they change.

Why does this atlas focus on these three cities? Although each is distinct, they also share similarities and are linked through shared subcultures. If you do a quick search for the greenest, most sustainable, transit-friendly, bike-friendly, healthy, exciting, or promiscuous cities, or for the best cities for hipsters, cats, dogs, coffee, twenty-somethings, or foodies, all three of these cities are usually listed in the top ten.

These West Coast cities are sometimes...

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Verlag
Sasquatch Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1632171821
ISBN 13 
9781632171825
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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