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“Elsewhere such a fire might well be called a great one . . .”: ibid., p. 299.
361
“Sour, pseudo-religious folk on the shores of the Atlantic . . .”: ibid., p. 333.
361
“successively destroyed nearly all the old buildings and land-marks of Yerba Buena . . .”: ibid., p. 345.
362
“The lives lost yesterday are not chargeable to the earthquake . . .”: San Francisco Morning Call, October 22, 1868.
362
“The aim of Operation Gomorrah, as it was called . . .”: W. G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction, trans. Anthea Bell (New York: Random House, 2003), p. 26.
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“San Francisco is now developing programs . . .”: Leonard S. Mosias for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, “Residential Rehabilitation Survey Western Addition Area 2,” July 1962, unpaginated.
365
Between 1960 and 1974, the number of fires tripled: Jill Jonnes, We’re Still Here: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the South Bronx (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986), p. 261.
365
an average of 33 fires a night in the first half of the 1970s: Brian Wallis, ed., If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism—A Project by Martha Rosler (Seattle: Bay Press, 1991), p. 288.
365
“in the first year without payoffs . . .”: Marshall Berman, “New York (New York City),” in These United States, ed. John Leonard (New York: Nation Books, 2003), p. 299.
365
“People don’t want housing in the South Bronx . . .”: Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan quoted in Jonnes, We’re Still Here, p. 92.
366
“For years, midnight fires ate up not only buildings . . .”: Berman, “New York (New York City),” p. 288.
366
“In the 1970s and 1980s, New York’s greatest spectacles . . .”: ibid., p. 294.
366
“whole areas look like the burnt-out ruins of war . . .”: Cardinal Terence Cooke quoted in Jonnes, We’re Still Here, p. 264.
366
“Already in the mid-1970s . . .”: Luc Sante, “My Lost City,” New York Review of Books, November 6, 2003, p. 34.
370
“From the outset . . .”: Sebald, Natural History of Destruction, p. 7.
Permissions
Most of the essays in this book have appeared in print in earlier versions, though often in overseas or local publications, lush books few seem to have found, and other obscure places. They have been edited for this volume; some have been shortened, while in others text that had been cut from the earlier version was restored. Some essays have been retitled or have had their original titles restored.
“The Red Lands,” “California Comedy, or Surfing with Dante,” and “A Murder of Ravens: On Globalized Species” originally appeared in the London Review of Books in 2003, 2004, and 2006, respectively.
“The Postmodern Old West, or the Precession of Cowboys and Indians” was originally published in the September and December 1996 issues of Art issues.
“The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence: Creating, Revising, and Recognizing Native American Monuments” is included here courtesy of Harvard Design Magazine, where it first appeared in the fall 1999 issue.
“The Garden of Merging Paths” first appeared in Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, edited by James Brook and Iain A. Boal and published by City Lights Books in 1995.
“A Route in the Shape of a Question” was published in a truncated version in the Los Angeles Times in 2004.
“Thirty-Nine Steps Across the Border and Back” appeared in Against the Wall, edited by Michael Sorkin and published by the New Press in 2005.
“Nonconforming Uses: Teddy Cruz on Both Sides of the Border” was originally published as part of Democratic Vistas Profiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy (http://artspolicy.colum.edu/DVProfiles.html), Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College, Chicago, in 2006.
“The Price of Gold, the Value of Water” appeared in Sierra magazine in 2000.
“Meanwhile Back at the Ranch,” “Jailbirds I Have Loved,” “Fragments of the Future: The FTAA in Miami,” “Liberation Conspiracies,” “Sontag and Tsunami,” and “The Wal-Mart Biennale” all originally appeared at Tomdispatch.com.
“Poison Pictures” and “Other Daughters, Other American Revolutions” were published in The Nation in 2003 and 2006, respectively.
“Excavating the Sky” was the essay included in Richard Misrach’s The Sky Book, published by Arena Editions in 2000.
“Drawing the Constellations” accompanied the photograph “Home” in Meridel Rubenstein’s retrospective volume Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam, published by St. Anne’s Press in 2004.
“Hugging the Shadows,” “Justice by Moonlight,” “Mirror in the Street,” “The Silence of the Lambswool Cardigans,” “Locked Horns,” and “The Orbits of Earthly Bodies” all appeared in Orion magazine from 2003 through 2005.
“Making It Home: Travels outside the Fear Economy” was part of the text of a talk delivered by the author at the 2005 Chicago Humanities Festival.
A slightly longer version of “Every Corner Is Alive: Eliot Porter as an Environmentalist and an Artist” appeared in Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness, a book edited by John Rohrbach to accompany an Eliot Porter retrospective, copublished in 2001 by the Amon Carter Museum and the Aperture Foundation; it is included here courtesy of the Museum.
“The Botanical Circus, or Adventures in American Gardening” was the introduction to John Pfahl’s Extreme Horticulture, published by Francis Lincoln Books in 2003, and appears here by permission of the press.
“Seven Stepping Stones down the Primrose Path past Gender” was the keynote address delivered by the author at a 2002 conference on landscape and gender, sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley.
“San Francisco: The Metamorphosis” was included in These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union, edited by John Leonard and published by Nation Books in 2003.
“The Heart of the City” and “Gaping Questions” were published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004 and 2002, respectively, though the latter was written in October of 2001.
A longer version of “The Ruins of Memory” was included in Mark Klett’s book with Michael Lundgren, with essays by Philip Fradkin and Rebecca Solnit, After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, published by the University of California Press in 2006.
“Seashell to Ear” was the text for Helen Douglas’s photographic book Unravelling the Ripple, published by Pocketbooks in Edinburgh in 2001.
Index
The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below
Adams, Ansel
Adams, Robert
Alighieri, Dante
American Civil Liberties Union
Anthony, Carl
Apple Computer
Arcadia
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Balboa Park
Baldwin, James
Bangladesh
Barnum, P. T.
Barry Goldwater Bombing Range
Basso, Keith
Baudrillard, Jean
Beard, Peter
Becoming Citizens: Family Life and the Politics of Disability (Schwartzenberg)
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Benjamin, Walter
Benton, Thomas Hart
Berlin Wall
Berman, Marshall
Birds, bird migration
Birk, Sandow
Black, Michael
Black Elk, Charlotte
Black Rock Desert
&nb
sp; Bonneville Salt Flats
Borders
Borges, Jorge Luis
Brashares, June
Brechin, Gray
Brooks, Drex
Brower, David
Brown, Dee
Bryant, William Cullen
Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. See Cody, William F.
Burnett, Governor Peter
Burtynsky, Edward
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Brown)
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (Hochschild)
Bush, George
Canada
Capital (Marx)
Caponigro, Eleanor
Carson, Kit
Carson, Rachel
Casa Familiar, San Ysidro
Central Park
Cerberes, France
ChevronTexaco
Churchill, Ward
Cities: and countryside
Civil disobedience
“Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau)
Cixous, Hélène
Clarkson, Thomas
Cleland, John
Clinton, Bill
Clouds
Cody, William F. (“Buffalo Bill”)
Cohen, Michael
Cole, Thomas
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Concord, Massachusetts
Conrad, Joseph
Cowboys
Crazy Horse
Cruz, Teddy
Cyanide
Dalton Gang
Dann, Carrie and Mary
Dante’s Inferno (book)
Davis, Mike
Day After Tomorrow, The (film)
Dead Man (film)
Death and Life of Great American Cities The (Jacobs)
Demonstrations. See Protests; Civil disobedience
Desert. See also Great Basin; Nevada; New Mexico
Devil’s Tower National Monument
Divine Comedy
Durand, Asher B.
Durham, Jimmie
Earp, Wyatt
Earp, Allie
Eastwood, Clint
Eden, see also Paradise
El Dorado County
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
End of the Trail, The (sculpture)
Engels, Friedrich
Environmentalism, environmental movement. See also Carson, Rachel; Porter, Eliot; Sierra Club
Equiano, Olaudah
Fallon Naval Air Station, NV
Fanny Hill (Cleland)
Fast Runner, The (Atanarjuat) (film)
Feminism
Fences. See also Borders
Finn, Huckleberry
First Amendment
Fittko, Lisa
Franco, Francisco
Fraser, James Earl
Frayling, Christopher
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
Fremont, Jessie Benton
Fremont, John
Friedan, Betty
Frischman, Steve (Nevada Nuclear Projects Office)
Galilei, Galileo
Gardens
Garvey, Sean
Gender
Getty Museum, J. Paul
Gilbert, Jan
Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam
Globalization. See also World Trade Organization (WTO); North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
Gold
Gold Rush
Gomez-Pena, Guillermo
Great Basin
Great Basin Mine Watch
Guatemala City
Hamilton, Ann
Harney, Corbin
Heap of Birds, Edgar Hachivi
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Hernandez, Ezekiel
Hesiod
Hickok, Wild Bill
High Country News
Highway 50, “the Loneliest Highway in America”
Hochschild, Adam
Homelessness
Hugo, Victor
Immigrants. See Borders
In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World (Porter)
Indians. See Native Americans
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Iraq, U.S. war in
Irwin, Robert
Ishi, “the last Yahi”
Jackson, J. B.
Jacobs, Jane
Jarmusch, Jim
Jefferson, Thomas
Jesus
Johnson, Jay
Jupiter, moons of
Kerouac, Jack
King, Jr., Martin Luther
Klein, Norman
Kodak factory
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Labyrinths
Landscape. See also individual artists
Lang, Julian
Latin America
Lee Vining (town)
LeGuin, Ursula K.
Levada, Archbishop William J.
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Limerick, Patricia Nelson
Lippard, Lucy
Little Bighorn, battlefield
Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation
Lombardi, Mark
Long, Richard
Los Angeles
Mander, Jerry
Maps
Marshall, George
Marston, Ed
Marx, Karl
Mazes. See also Labyrinths
McCannell, Dean
McPhee, John
Melville, Herman
Memory
Merchant, Carolyn
Mercury
Metaphor
Mexico
Cancun, WTO meeting in
war on. See also Borders; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mik, Aernout (artist)
Miller, Jeffrey
Mining
Misrach, Richard
Montana
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres de la Plaza de Mayo)
Mountain lions
Muir, John
Mulroy, Pat
Monument Valley (Tse Bii’Nidzinsigai)
Monuments. See Public art
Myers, Tom (Great Basin Mine Watch)
Names, naming
National Lawyers Guild
Native Americans
Inuit
Kiowa
Lakota
Mattole
Miwok (Coast)
Nisenan
Ohlone
Pequots
Pueblo
Southern Sierra Miwok
Western Apache
Western Shoshone
White Clay Assinboine
Nelson, Richard K.
Nevada
Nevada Test Site
New Age movements
Newhall, Beaumont
New Mexico
New Urbanism
New York City
New York Times
North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Nuclear weapons, nuclear war
Nuclear waste
Depleted uranium
O’Dea, Martina
O.K. Corral
Oklahoma
On Photography. See Sontag, Susan
Ono, Yoko
Ouverture, Toussaint L’
Ovid
Paradise
Pauli, Lori
Pedestrians, pedestrianism
Pena, Veronica de la
Perenyi, Eleanor
Petefish, Andy
Photography. See also Misrach, Richard; Porter, Eliot; Rubenstein, Meridel; Sontag, Susan
Pioneer Monument, San Francisco
Place, idea of
Sacred sites
Place No One Knew, The (Porter)
Playboy channel and magazine
Plazas
Pope, Alexander
Port Bou, Spain
Porter, Eliot
Porter, Fairfield
Postmodernism, postmodernists
Powell, John Wesley
Prest,
John
Price, Jenny
Project Underground
Protests. See also Civil disobedience
Public art
Racism. See also Borders; Native Americans; Slavery, slaves
Reagan, Ronald
Reclaim the Streets
Reisner, Mark
Report on an Expedition of the Country Lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains (Fremont)
Repo Man (film)
Republican Party
Republican National Convention of 2004
Rexroth, Kenneth
Richard, Frances
Rigo 23 (artist)
Rio Grande (river)
Road Runner (cartoon series)
Rohrbach, John
Rosenblum, Robert
Rosenzweig, Ray
Rothko, Mark
Rubenstein, Meridel
Ruskin, John
Sacramento River
Sacred sites
Safde, Moishe
Salmon
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Sanders, Marcus
Santa Clara County
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sante, Luc
Sawyer, Alonzo, Judge
Schwartzenberg, Susan
Seattle. See also World Trade Organization (WTO)
Sebald, W. G.
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. See World Trade Center
Sequioa National Forest
Sewell, Chris
Sharp, Granville
Shepard, Paul
Sierra Club
Sierra Nevada
Silent Spring (Carson)
Silicon Valley
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Sitting Bull
Sky
Slavery, slaves
Smith, Ted
Smithsonian Institution
Snyder, Gary
Sommer, Frederick
Sonoma, CA
Sonoran pronghorn
Sontag, Susan
Sorkin, Michael
South Yuba River Citizens League
Southern Poverty Law Center
Sphinx in the City, The
Stanford, Leland
Starhawk
Starr, Kevin
Stewart, George R.
Stieglitz, Alfred
Superfund sites
Sweet Medicine: Sites of Indian Massacres, Battlefields, and Treaties (Brooks)
Technology
Thacker, Christopher
Thoreau, Henry David
Tijuana
Timoney, John, Police Chief, Miami
Tompkins, Jane
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Trimble, Stephen
Tsunami of 2004
Turner, J. M. W.
Twain, Mark