Counterpoints

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This atlas combines cartography, essays, illustrations, and poetry to illustrate gentrification and resistance in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving as a roadmap for counter-hegemonic knowledge and activism. Compiled by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, it presents various frameworks to understand the ongoing urban upheaval, addressing themes such as evictions, indigenous geographies, health and environmental racism, state violence, transportation, migration, and speculative futures. By interweaving these topics, the atlas broadens traditional urban studies perspectives on gentrification, offering a more complex, historically grounded view of the region's social and political interconnectedness. It emphasizes the need to examine the tech boom's impact beyond San Francisco, acknowledging the area's long history of displacement rooted in settler colonialism. The work features contributions from community partners and individuals, including long-time residents facing racial dispossession and elementary school youth imagining decolonial futures. Ultimately, this collaborative atlas aims to enhance understanding of displacement and resistance in the Bay Area, created with those most affected rather than for them.