VIRTUAL LAUNCH | Bay Lexicon: Jane Wolff in conversation with Susan Schwartzenberg

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Jane Wolff celebrates the launch of Bay Lexicon, a field guide to San Francisco's shoreline. This virtual event is hosted by City Lights Bookstore, and will be held on the Zoom platform.

Jane Wolff is associate professor at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Bay Lexicon, a field guide to San Francisco's shoreline, is a case study in establishing a working language for hybrid landscapes. Centred on a walk along the edge of the iconic San Francisco Bay, it documents, deciphers, and classifies the places and phenomena a person encounters - and the forces, histories, and interactions that underlie what is visible. In a unique synthesis of text and drawing, Jane Wolff applies analytical and representational tools based in design and documentary work to findings from the fields of geography, environmental and cultural history, public policy, urban ecology, and landscape studies. As our cities face increasing pressure caused by climate change, we will need to reimagine them in terms that do justice to their complexity. Bay Lexicon's methods for building landscape literacy are meant for translation, adaptation, and use far beyond San Francisco Bay.