Exploring the Paths of Brookline

Exploring the Paths of Brookline
Title Exploring the Paths of Brookline PDF eBook
Author Linda Olson Pehlke
Publisher
Pages 50
Release 2001
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN

Download Exploring the Paths of Brookline Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Image of the City

The Image of the City
Title The Image of the City PDF eBook
Author Kevin Lynch
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 212
Release 1964-06-15
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780262620017

Download The Image of the City Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

WalkBoston

WalkBoston
Title WalkBoston PDF eBook
Author Robert Sloane
Publisher Appalachian Mountain Club
Pages 0
Release 2003
Genre Boston (Mass.)
ISBN 9781929173365

Download WalkBoston Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This essential guide of walks and light hikes leads outdoor enthusiasts off Boston's beaten track to explore some of the famous city's most unique neighborhoods.

Designing a Garden

Designing a Garden
Title Designing a Garden PDF eBook
Author Michael Van Valkenburgh
Publisher The Monacelli Press, LLC
Pages 209
Release 2019-10-15
Genre Gardening
ISBN 1580935524

Download Designing a Garden Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The intimate Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston embodies the design principles that inform the work of noted landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh. In Designing a Garden, Van Valkenburgh presents the design of the Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, an intimate, walled garden that Laurie Olin has described as "a masterpiece, and not a minor one." The book documents the evolution of the garden's design, which is based on the concept of meandering paths through a dreamlike woodland to create a contemplative space. Sketches and models show how the idea was worked out, and lush photographs reveal the completed garden through the seasons. Van Valkenburgh's text explores the origins of his love of landscape and plants in his family farm in Upstate New York and how this has influenced his intuitions as a designer. He shares the full background story of the Monk's Garden, focusing on the experimental nature of design work as well as the challenges and satisfactions of the small scale and the historic and cultural context. Designing a Garden provides a unique first-person account of the design process from the most prominent landscape architects in the country.

The Voyager Record

The Voyager Record
Title The Voyager Record PDF eBook
Author Anthony Michael Morena
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre
ISBN 9781941628041

Download The Voyager Record Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Late summer 1977: two identical robotic spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral. Their divergent paths through the solar system take them past gas giants, icy moons, asteroid belts, and eventually into the unknown of interstellar space. There, they will continue to travel on forever, the fastest moving objects ever created by humans. The Voyagers carry a message from Earth, a phonograph record plated with gold containing 27 songs, 118 images, and greetings in 55 languages meant to summarize all life on our planet for the extraterrestrials who might one day encounter the crafts. The Voyager Record : A Transmission is the record of that record: a history in fragments exploring how legendary astronomer Carl Sagan and his team attempted to press the entire human race into a single groove. Combining elements of poetry, flash fiction, and essay, Anthony Michael Morena creates a collage of music, observation, humor, and alienation. Giving the 38-year-old original playlist a B-side update, Morena's The Voyager Record calls out to its namesake across the billions of miles of emptiness: Send more answers.

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score
Title The Body Keeps the Score PDF eBook
Author Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher Penguin Books
Pages 466
Release 2015-09-08
Genre Medical
ISBN 0143127748

Download The Body Keeps the Score Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

The Doloriad

The Doloriad
Title The Doloriad PDF eBook
Author Missouri Williams
Publisher MCD x FSG Originals
Pages 240
Release 2022-03-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0374605092

Download The Doloriad Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"[The Doloriad] just might be what your rotten little heart deserves." —J. Robert Lennon, The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by i-D, Cosmopolitan, Thrillist, Lit Reactor, and Lit Hub, and one of Nylon's March 2022 Books to Add to Your Reading List Macabre, provocative, depraved, and unforgettable, The Doloriad marks the debut of Missouri Williams, a terrifyingly original new voice In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the Matriarch, her brother, and the family descended from their incest cling to existence on the edges of a deserted city. The Matriarch, ruling with fear and force, dreams of starting humanity over again, though her children are not so certain. Together the family scavenges supplies and attempts to cultivate the poisoned earth. For entertainment, they watch old VHS tapes of a TV show in which a problem-solving medieval saint faces down a sequence of logical and ethical dilemmas. But one day the Matriarch dreams of another group of survivors and sends away one of her daughters, the legless Dolores, as a marriage offering. When Dolores returns the next day, her reappearance triggers the breakdown of the Matriarch’s fragile order, and the control she wields over their sprawling family begins to weaken. Told in extraordinary, intricate prose that moves with a life of its own, and at times striking with the power of physical force, Missouri Williams’s debut novel is a blazingly original document of depravity and salvation. Gothic and strange, moving and disquieting, and often hilarious, The Doloriad stares down, with narrowed eyes, humanity’s unbreakable commitment to life.