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Mapping the San Francisco Renaissance

New media allows us to map data and information in a stunning variety of ways, each of which obeys particular familiar and new conventions. Connecting all of these new ways of mapping data and information is the hyperlink - - a form of connection that can both organize and disorganize our ways of understanding data and information. For the San Francisco Renaissance, we're going to explore the possibilities of spatial mapping, a way of organizing information less familiar to our disciplinary models of knowledge. To start this experiment: first, use your sfsu.edu email to create a google account; you'll receive an invitation to our google map of the San Francisco Renaissance in your sfsu email; click on the link to our (now mostly blank) google map; once you've clicked on the link, you will arrive at our map page; note the under-developed marker I've placed for the SF Poetry Center; click on edit; you're now ready to start adding markers and rich content to our map.

You create a new marker by dragging a marker icon from the upper-left hand corner of the map. Note: I've created a special SF Renaissance icon - - an image of the title page of Ginsberg's __Howl__. To use this icon, once you've placed the marker on the map and the marker window opens up, click on the marker icon in the upper left hand corner of the marker window. Click on the "my markers" link and then click on the image of __Howl__. Once you've placed a new marker: title it and then add content to the text box. You can write text, link text, insert images, and insert videos into the text box.

Below you'll find a provisional list of places in San Francisco that played some role in the short-lived Renaissance. Select three of these locations. For each location: "pin" the location to our map using a marker and title it; do some web research to find photographs, descriptions, videos, and any other material about this site; write a commentary that explains this place's relationship to the San Francisco Renaissance. The text box on google map markers is pretty small - - for your commentary, you may need to create a longer entry in our class wiki and then link it to the marker. Click "OK" when you're done.

San Francisco Renaissance locations:

Six Gallery City LIghts Bookstore San Francisco Poetry Center Saints Peter and Paul Church The Embarcadero Garibaldi Hall Purple Onion Fugazi Hall Longshoreman's Hall Cafe Trieste Co-Existence Bagel Shop The Cellar The Place Coffee Gallery Spec's Bread and Wine Mission Vesuvio Cafe Jazz Workshop Keystone Korner Bel Hotel Hotel Dante Colombo Hotel New Rivera Hotel

[This is only a provisional list: if you come across other sites, add them to this list and map them.]

Some useful sites for investigating San Francisco history:

[|San Francisco History Index] [|San Francisco Public Library] [|How to research a San Francisco building] [|Museum of the City of San Francisco] [|Shaping San Francisco] [|San Francisco Memories] [|San Francisco Historical Photographs] [|Library of Congress Historical Newspapers] [|California Digital Newspaper Collection] [|California Landmarks]