People Park

Author : Pasha Malla
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593765392

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People Park by Pasha Malla Pdf

It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrator Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its residents have ever seen. As the entire island comes together for the event, we meet an unforgettable cross-section of its inhabitants, from activists to nihilists, art stars to athletes, families to inveterate loners. Soon, however, what has promised to be a triumph of civic harmony begins to reveal its shadow side. And when Raven's illustration exceeds even the most extreme of expectations, the island is plunged into a series of unnatural disasters that force people to confront what they are really made of. People Park is a tour de force of eerily prescient, grotesque, and hilarious observation and a narrative of gripping, unrelenting suspense. Malla writes as if the twin demons of Stephen King and Flannery O'Connor were resting on his shoulders. You've never read anything quite like People Park.

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1597144681

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The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 by Tom Dalzell Pdf

"Resplendent.... A masterwork of history."--Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch In eyewitness testimonies and hundreds of remarkable photographs, The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most searing conflicts that closed out the tumultuous 1960s: the Battle for People's Park. In April 1969, a few Berkeley activists planted the first tree on a University of California-owned, abandoned city block on Telegraph Avenue. Hundreds of people from all over the city helped build the park as an expression of a politics of joy. The University was appalled, and warned that unauthorized use of the land would not be tolerated; and on May 15, which would soon be known as Bloody Thursday, a violent struggle erupted, involving thousands of people. Hundreds were arrested, martial law was declared, and the National Guard was ordered by then-Governor Ronald Reagan to crush the uprising and to occupy the entire city. The police fired shotguns against unarmed students. A military helicopter gassed the campus indiscriminately, causing schoolchildren miles away to vomit. One man died from his wounds. Another was blinded. The vicious overreaction by Reagan helped catapult him into national prominence. Fifty years on, the question still lingers: Who owns the Park?

Author : Roy Rosenzweig,Elizabeth Blackmar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0801497515

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The Park and the People by Roy Rosenzweig,Elizabeth Blackmar Pdf

Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.

Author : Wander Stories
Publisher : WanderStories
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789949553341

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People’s Square and Park in Shanghai by Wander Stories Pdf

Dear Traveler, Welcome to the WanderStories™ tour of People’s Square and Park in Shanghai. We are now ready to take you on your personal tour of this world famous landmark. We, at WanderStories™, are storytellers. We don’t tell you where to eat or sleep, we don’t intend to replace a typical travel reference guide. Our mission is to be the best local guide that you would wish to have by your side when visiting the sights. So, we meet you at the sight and take you on a tour. WanderStories™ travel guides are unique because our storytelling style puts you alongside the best local guide who tells you fascinating stories and unusual facts recreating the passion and sacrifice that forged the beauty of these places right here in front of you, while a wealth of high quality photos, historic pictures, and illustrations brings your tour vividly to life. Our promise: • when you visit People’s Square and Park with this travel guide you will have the best local guide at your fingertips • when you read this travel guide in the comfort of your armchair you will feel as if you are actually visiting People’s Square and Park with the best local guide Let’s go! Your guide, WanderStories

Author : Terri Compost
Publisher : Slingshot
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215340089

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People's Park, Still Blooming by Terri Compost Pdf

Peopleas Park in Berkeley was born when a diverse coalition of activists seized a vacant lot to build a park in 1969. The authorities reacted violently, leading to riots in which police shot into crowds, killing one bystander and wounding over 100 people. The battle over Peopleas Park became a symbol for the battles of the 1960s between the counter-culture and mainstream society. While the dramatic story of the Parkas violent creation in 1969 has been thoroughly told, no book until now has brought the story up to date. This book illustrates how the Park is still a living counter-cultural experiment and a model for do-it-yourself ecological and social direct action. The book features hundreds of historical images and photographs of the Parkas present uses: as a community garden and native plant repository; as a liberated zone for concerts and political rallies; and as one of the few places open to all peoplearich and poor, homeless and housedain an increasingly consumer-dominated Berkeley. The book uses interviews, news clipping, political tracts, and primary documents to show how generations of activists have fought to allow the users of the Park to control its development, operation, and maintenanceaembodying the principal of user development in the face of constant police repression.

Author : Anthony M. Orum,Zachary Neal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135257545

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Common Ground? by Anthony M. Orum,Zachary Neal Pdf

Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal explore how public space can be a facilitator of civil order, a site for power and resistance, and a stage for art, theatre, and performance. They bring together these frequently unconnected models for understanding public space, collecting classic and contemporary readings that illustrate each, and synthesizing them in a series of original essays. Throughout, they offer questions to provoke discussion, and conclude with thoughts on how these models can be combined by future scholars of public space to yield more comprehensive understanding of how public space works.

Author : Robert O. Binnewies
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0823221288

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Palisades by Robert O. Binnewies Pdf

The story of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, founded in 1900 to save the cliffs that border the Hudson River, is told by Binnewies, its former executive director. The work is based on extensive archival research carried out by numerous people associated with the PIPC. The commission became the overseer of many parks as well as several historic sites. The story of the fight to save these areas, with all the negotiations, fundraising, personalities, and political struggle involved is told in a clear and detailed narrative. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Matt Garczynski
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762469024

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This Is a Book for People Who Love the National Parks by Matt Garczynski Pdf

Smart, short, and irresistibly illustrated, This Is a Book for People Who Love National Parks is a park-by-park celebration of the American outdoors. For devoted park-goers and casual campers alike, this charming guide is nothing short of a celebration of America's natural wonders. An introduction to the storied history of the Parks Service is paired with engaging profiles of each of the sixty-one National Parks, from Acadia to Zion and everything in between. Quirky facts and key dates are woven throughout, while refreshingly modern illustrations capture the iconic features of each majestic setting. Deeply researched but not too serious, This Is a Book for People Who Love National Parks is an essential addition to every park lover's field library.

Author : Matt Hern,Selena Couture,Daisy Couture,Sadie Couture
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773630717

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On This Patch of Grass by Matt Hern,Selena Couture,Daisy Couture,Sadie Couture Pdf

Exclusive online content, photos, and more, available here Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified goods. People think of parks as public or common land, and it is a common belief that parks are the best uses of land and are good for everyone. But no park is innocent. Parks are lionized as “natural oases,” and urban parks as “pure nature” in the midst of the city — but that’s absurd. Parks are as “natural” as the roads or buildings around them, and just as political. Every park in North America is performing modernity and settler colonialism everyday. Furthermore, parks are not private property, but while they are called ‘public’, they are highly regulated spaces that normatively demand and closely control behaviours. Parks are a certain kind of property, and thus creations of law, and they are subject to all kinds of presumptions about what parks are for, and what kinds of people should be doing what kinds of things in them. Parks — as they are currently constituted — are colonial enterprises. On This Patch of Grass is an investigation into one small urban park — Vancouver’s Victoria Park, or Bocce Ball Park — as a way to interrogate the politics of land. The authors grapple with the fact that they are uninvited guests on the occupied and traditional territories of the Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓əm), Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (səliľwətaʔɬ) nations. But Bocce Ball Park is also a wonderful place in many ways, with a startling plurality of users and sovereignties, and all kinds of overlapping activities and all kinds of overlapping people co-existing more-or-less peaceably. It is a living exhibition of the possibilities of sharing land and perhaps offers some clues to a decolonial horizon. The book is a collaborative exercise between one white family and some friends looking at the park from a variety of perspectives, asking what we might say about this patch of grass, and what kinds of occupation might this place imply.

Author : Frederick Charles Brightly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924017711361

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A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of the State of New York : from the Earliest Period to 1880 ... by Frederick Charles Brightly Pdf

Author : Daniel E. Frick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131796869

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Reinventing Richard Nixon by Daniel E. Frick Pdf

"Examining Nixon's autobiographies and political memorabilia, Frick offers far-reaching perceptions not only of the man but of Nixon's version of himself - contrasted with those who would interpret him differently. He cites reinventions of Nixon from the late 1980s, particularly the museum at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, to demonstrate the resilience of certain national mythic narratives in the face of liberal critiques. And he recounts how celebrants at Nixon's state funeral, at which Bob Dole's eulogy depicted a God-fearing American hero, attempted to bury the sources of our divisions over him, rendering in some minds the judgment of "redeemed statesman" to erase his status as "disgraced president."" "With dozens of illustrations - Nixon posing with Elvis (the National Archives' most requested photo), Nixonian cultural artifacts, classic editorial cartoons - no other book collects in one place such varied images of Nixon from so many diverse media. These reinforce Frick's probing analysis to help us understand why we disagree about Nixon - and why it matters how we resolve our disagreements."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Stacy Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1599328062

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People of Memorial Park by Stacy Holden Pdf

Community Refuge Inspiration Make Your Path on The Trail A place of restoration. A center of well-being. A trail of freedom. A path to enhancement. You have stepped into the hallowed grounds of Houston's beloved Memorial Park. A place where anyone belongs . . . all that's required is a spirit of camaraderie and desire to improve oneself and the world around. Finding a trail so vital and so integrated with a community is a rarity, and that's just what Memorial Park is: a rarity, treasure, and pleasure for anyone who visits. Turn the pages and follow the many footsteps on the trail--those of the fast, slow, old, and young--and learn how one city's dedication to conserving its natural beauty and resources has changed countless lives, families, and organizations. Through others' perspectives, you will -find humor and appreciation for the diverse personalities who frequent the trail; -find the inspiration to overcome difficult situations; and -find the encouragement that anyone can be active. Follow the people of Memorial Park.

Author : James Nevius,Michelle Nevius
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493008407

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Footprints in New York by James Nevius,Michelle Nevius Pdf

NYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkers—from Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—and use them to guide the reader through four centuries of the city’s story. Beginning with the oldest standing building in the city, , a 1652 farmhouse in Brooklyn, and journeying all the way to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, the book follows in the footsteps of these iconic New Yorkers. The authors tell the stories of everyone from slave traders and long-forgotten politicians to the movers and shakers of Gilded Age society and the Greenwich Village folk scene. One part history and one part personal narrative, Footprints in New York creates a different way of looking at the past, exploring new connections and forgotten chapters in the story of America’s greatest metropolis. Visit www.footprintsinny.com for more.

Author : Paul Rabbitts
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445643014

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Hyde Park by Paul Rabbitts Pdf

The story of London’s favourite Royal Park and neighbouring Kensington Gardens, beautifully illustrated with paintings, prints, postcards and modern photographs.

Author : Pasha Malla
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593762384

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The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla Pdf

Pasha Malla knows joy in all of its weird, unsettling, and wondrous forms. In their humor, warmth, and rigorous honesty, his stories clearly capture something odd and beautiful: the unmistakable feeling of empathy. From young couples fighting through the emotional trauma of the modern world to children navigating wayward, forbidden paths of a fantasized adulthood, Malla presents characters deeply entrenched in the familiar and hearts that slowly open to reveal the pain and unexpected love that life accumulates. The Withdrawal Method offers worlds where Niagara Falls has run dry, where people’s skin can be shed in a single piece, and where ancient frustrated chess masters invent machines that unexpectedly alter the course of history. Reminiscent of Lorrie Moore, Haruki Murakami, and George Saunders, these stories are haunting, captivating, and constructed with a poise and precision that reach beyond technical skill. Malla’s is an assured new voice; his smooth, mature style is punctuated by bursts of wild humor and enlivened by endlessly inventive storytelling. As individual narratives, these stories speak to each side of the protean human psyche, but when taken together they address with full understanding the fragility of our lives.