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Vagabond

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Author : Ceilidh Michelle
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771622997
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Vagabond written by Ceilidh Michelle and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating memoir of living on the streets along California’s Highway 1, for fans of Mistakes to Run With and Nearly Normal. At twenty-one, Ceilidh Michelle was homeless, drifting through countercultural communities along California’s coast, from Venice Beach to Slab City to Big Sur. This restless and turbulent time began when she was sleeping on her sister’s couch in Vancouver and decided to become a yoga disciple in California. Denied entry at the US border in Washington state, and stuck overnight in the Greyhound station, her already shaky pilgrimage began to take another direction, away from the inward sanctuary of an ashram and toward the sea and light and noise of Venice Beach, and eventually up Highway 1 to the desert. Having spent much of her youth outrunning family turmoil, the peripatetic lifestyle once key to Michelle’s survival is now a habit she can’t or won’t break—unless it breaks her first. Sleeping in parking lots, camping out in abandoned beach cottages and mansions, she finds community, easy and fraught, with fellow travellers: musicians, veterans, ex-cons, addicts, drug dealers, artists and con artists. Still, dreams and fleeting notions of home fuel and shadow every encounter, haunting the places she stays, offering moments of both grace and violence. Told with deadpan humour and insightful lyricism, Vagabond is an observant and at times shimmering narrative suspended between a traumatic past and an as yet unimagined future. Coursing through it is the story of an emergent writer just beginning to find sanctuary in her own creative instincts.

Slab City

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Author : Charlie Hailey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262347865
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Slab City written by Charlie Hailey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An architect and a photographer explore a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, and survivalists inhabiting a former military base in the California desert. Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some “the last free place” and by others “an enclave of anarchy,” Slab City is also the end of the road for many. Without official electricity, running water, sewers, or trash pickup, Slab City dwellers also live without law enforcement, taxation, or administration. Built on the concrete slabs of Camp Dunlap, an abandoned Marine training base, the settlement maintains its off-grid aspirations within the site's residual military perimeters and gridded street layout; off-grid is really in-grid. In this book, architect Charlie Hailey and photographer Donovan Wylie explore the contradictions of Slab City. In a series of insightful texts and striking color photographs, Hailey and Wylie capture the texture of life in Slab City. They show us Slab Mart, a conflation of rubbish heap and recycling center; signs that declare Welcome to Slab City, T'ai Chi on the Slabs Every morning, and Don't fuck around; RVs in conditions ranging from luxuriously roadworthy to immobile; shelters cloaked in pallets and palm fronds; and the alarmingly opaque water of the hot springs. At Camp Dunlap in the 1940s, Marines learned how to fight a war. In Slab City, civilians resort to their own wartime survival tactics. Is the current encampment an outpost of freedom, a new “city on a hill” built by the self-chosen, an inversion of Manifest Destiny, or is it a last vestige of freedom, tended by society's dispossessed? Officially, it is a town that doesn't exist. Research for this project was supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Tower and Slab

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Author : Florian Urban
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136638504
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Tower and Slab written by Florian Urban and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 1. Social reform, state control, and the origins of mass housing -- ch. 2. Mass housing in Chicago -- ch. 3. The concrete cordon around Paris -- ch. 4. Slabs versus tenements in East and West Berlin -- ch. 5. Bras?lia, the slab block capital -- ch. 6. Mumbai : mass housing for the upper crust -- ch. 7. Prefab Moscow -- ch. 8. High-rise Shanghai -- ch. 9. Global architecture, locally conditioned.

Middle of Nowhere

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Author : Sara M. Patterson
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826356303
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Middle of Nowhere written by Sara M. Patterson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Leonard Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully.

Portland's Slabtown

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Author : Mike Ryerson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738596299
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Portland's Slabtown written by Mike Ryerson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Portland's first decades, the northwest side remained dense forests. Native Americans camped and Chinese immigrants farmed around Guild's Lake. In the 1870s, Slabtown acquired its unusual name when a lumber mill opened on Northrup Street. The mill's discarded log edges were a cheap source of heating and cooking fuel. This slabwood was stacked in front of working-class homes of employees of a pottery, the docks, icehouses, slaughterhouses, and lumber mills. Development concentrated along streetcar lines. The early 20th century brought the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, manufacturing, shipbuilding, Montgomery Ward, and the Vaughn Street Ballpark. Today, Slabtown is a densely populated residential neighborhood, with many small shops and restaurants and an industrial area on its northern border. Tourists still arrive by streetcar to the charming Thurman, NW Twenty-first, and Twenty-third Avenues. Famous residents include author Ursula Le Guin, baseball greats Johnny Pesky and Mickey Lolich, NBA player Swede Halbrook, and Portland mayors Bud Clark and Vera Katz.

Sidewalk City

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Author : Annette Miae Kim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611922X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Sidewalk City written by Annette Miae Kim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title re-maps public space in order to unveil contemporary spatial practices and to explore future possibilities. In the midst of historic migration and urbanisation, our limited public spaces are being contested and re-conceptualised in cities around the world with innovative experiments in some places and bloody battles in others. This book uses the case of sidewalks in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where a vibrant everyday urbanism takes place in flexible patterns that defy conventional conceptions of public space.

Slab Rat

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Author : Ted Heller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743213610
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Slab Rat written by Ted Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pitch-perfect tradition of the very best of Nick Hornby, Martin Amis, and Christopher Buckley comes Slab Rat, a razor-sharp, highly comic novel of lethal ambition and office politics. Zachary Arlen Post is an up-and-coming editor at It magazine, one of the glossiest jewels in the glittery publishing crown of Versailles Publishing. The son of a well-regarded architect and an eccentric Palm Beach socialite, Zack was educated at an exclusive boarding school and has studied at Colgate, Berkeley, and Liverpool University. He is an excellent golfer and has a talent for translating Plautus from the original Latin. Or maybe not. He is really Allen Zachary Post, the son of a garment-center bookkeeper from Queens and a pool-supply salesman from Long Island. But for Zack, his background is too prosaic for a slightly lazy but very ambitious magazine editor who wants to move up at It. Even though Zack has concocted a background that is more in keeping with the privileged world he wants to be a part of than the truth, his ascent up the masthead has stalled: Try though he might -- and maybe he's too lazy to try that hard -- he just cannot seem to get promoted. Enter Mark Larkin, a determined, Harvard-educated hire who understands how the corporate game is played. Mark says the right things, he lunches with the right people, and he pitches the right stories. A snob thriving in a world of snobs, he begins to get noticed, and, to Zack's dismay, is promoted quickly. Zack realizes that something must be done. Mark Larkin must be destroyed. To complicate his life further, Zack finds himself involved with two women. One is a cool (or is she just ice cold?) English beauty with a hyphenated last name and vague family connections to Winston Churchill. The other is an eager, sweet-natured intern whose father is the magazine's barracuda corporate counsel. Zack is torn between the style (and hyphen) of one and the good-natured substance of the other. In Slab Rat, Ted Heller uses the magazine industry as a laboratory in which to dissect human nature. He has written a biting, outrageous story of how the rats that battle for dominance amid New York's skyscrapers -- or "slabs" -- survive and triumph, and the price they must pay to win. Full of dark comedy and a ruthless satire of office life (and death), Slab Rat is a novel rich with the wicked pleasures of the heart.

Spoil Island

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Author : Charlie Hailey
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739173073
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Spoil Island written by Charlie Hailey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness with human intervention. Although they are mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. To explore these islands, Spoil Island: Reading the Makeshift Archipelago navigates a course along the U.S. east coast, moving from New York City to Florida. Along the way, a general populace squats, picnics, and reflects on the islands, while other forces are also at work. New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses first deplores then adopts Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, UN Secretary General U Thant meditates on the East River’s Belmont Island, businessman John D. MacArthur rejects the purchase of Peanut Island, artist Christo surrounds Miami’s spoil islands, Key Westers debate the futures of two spoil islands that mark their sunset view, and artist Robert Smithson augments this archipelago materially and conceptually. Historical and contemporary stories highlight each island’s often contradictory ecologies that pair nature with infrastructure, public concerns with private development, rationalized urbanism with artistic impulse, and order with disorder. Spoil islands put you in places you normally wouldn’t—and perhaps shouldn’t—be. To examine these marginalized topographies is to understand emergent concerns of twenty-first-century place-making, public space, and natural and artificial infrastructure. Today, spoil islands constitute an unprecedented public commons, where human agency and nature are inextricably linked. Spoil Island will be of interest to anyone working in the areas of architecture, cultural history, cultural geography, environmental studies, or environmental philosophy. Linking the islands with their environmental aesthetics, Charlie Hailey provides a lively and critical topography of places that play a part in current events and local situations with global implications.

Something is Killing the Children #16

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Author : James TynionIV
Publisher : Boom! Studios
ISBN 13 : 1646684710
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Something is Killing the Children #16 written by James TynionIV and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story you demanded begins here: the origin of Erica Slaughter! What shocking events brought Erica to the House of Slaughter? ...and what did she have to do to join the Order of St. George? The secrets are revealed here for the first time in this perfect jumping-on point for new readers.

Marina City

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Author : Igor Marjanovic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marina City written by Igor Marjanovic and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The Marina City towers are] the most convincing and impressive arguments against Mies...They stand out in this city like exclamation marks against the domination of the box, they alone challenge the neatly tied-up packages of space which almost exclusively determine Chicago's cityscape." -Heinrich Klotz, Architecture and Urbanism, 1975 --Book Jacket.

On the Border

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Author : Andrew Grant Wood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842051736
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book On the Border written by Andrew Grant Wood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of mining and the rise of Tijuana, the book examines a number of aspects of the region's social and cultural history, including urban growth and housing, the mysterious underworld of border-town nightlife, a film noir treatment of the Peteet family suicides, borderlands cuisine, the life of squatters, and popular religion. As stimulating as it is lively, On the Border will spark a new appreciation for the range of social and cultural experiences in the borderlands.

Saturnalia

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Author : Justin Chapman
Publisher : Barnacle Book
ISBN 13 : 9781940207384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Saturnalia written by Justin Chapman and published by Barnacle Book. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Spring of 2012, reporter and travel junkie Justin Chapman threw his cares to the wind and, by himself, set off on an epic journey across eight countries in Africa -- from Cape Town, South Africa, to Mityana, Uganda -- by bus, train, and boat. Along the way, he narrowly escaped being locked away in a mental institution, visited an impoverished township that is changing its future with the help of an art-based nonprofit, got into a life-threatening car crash, explored the mystical island of Zanzibar, lived with a group of Catholic priests, witnessed a witchcraft healing ceremony, discovered a pygmy opium den, and chased down riveting stories with a local journalist. He crossed cultural boundaries, found love and companionship in unusual places, and stared death -- with all its visceral stench and gore -- directly in the eyeballs. Saturnalia is an engrossing cultural and anthropological treatise like none other. By embarking on a journey of self-discovery and survival, Chapman explores what Africa really has to offer and in the process discovers surprising and unexpected relationships between people and places.

Slab City: Tales from an Outlaw Town

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Author : Steven Bo Keeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781542909501
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Slab City: Tales from an Outlaw Town written by Steven Bo Keeley and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Andreas Fault ends at Slab City, CA. The fruits and nuts of America roll here. Only the outlaws land upright. Slab City is popularly known for freedom, Salvation Mountain, East Jesus, and sunshine. But an underworld supports it. There are drug smugglers, human traffickers, ex-cons, men and women on the lam, misdemeanors and felons, addicts, cat burglars, arsonists, con artists, car jacks, barefoot kingpins, high IQ crooks, Jesse Jameses and Butch Cassidys, bikers, mercenaries, terrorists, retirement pasture for Special Forces, foreign intelligence, bent cops, police informants, war veterans, washed out soldiers, trust fund activists, state dole riders, transgender pickpockets, Dirty Kids, gypsies, hobos, aging hippies, Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Rainbow Gatherers, Who's Who of celebrity criminals, wide-eyed tourists, messiahs, and Utopians. This is the last free place on earth where good and evil have decided to duke it out. These are the true tales from an outlaw town by a resident.

Nightmare Scenario

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Author : Yasmeen Abutaleb
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006327308X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Scenario written by Yasmeen Abutaleb and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller From the Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta—the definitive account of the Trump administration’s tragic mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the chaos, incompetence, and craven politicization that has led to more than a half million American deaths and counting. Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would test the former reality-television host—and they predicted that the president would prove unable to meet the moment. In 2020, that crisis came to pass, with the outcomes more devastating and consequential than anyone dared to imagine. Nightmare Scenario is the complete story of Donald Trump’s handling—and mishandling—of the COVID-19 catastrophe, during the period of January 2020 up to Election Day that year. Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta take us deep inside the White House, from the Situation Room to the Oval Office, to show how the members of the administration launched an all-out war against the health agencies, doctors, and scientific communities, all in their futile attempts to wish away the worst global pandemic in a century. From the initial discovery of this new coronavirus, President Trump refused to take responsibility, disputed the recommendations of his own pandemic task force, claimed the virus would “just disappear,” mocked advocates for safe-health practices, and encouraged his base and the entire GOP to ignore or rescind public health safety measures. Abutaleb and Paletta reveal the numerous times officials tried to dissuade Trump from following his worst impulses as he defied recommendations from the experts and even members of his own administration. And they show how the petty backstabbing and rivalries among cabinet members, staff, and aides created a toxic environment of blame, sycophancy, and political pressure that did profound damage to the public health institutions that Americans needed the most during this time. Even after an outbreak in the fall that swept through the White House and infected Trump himself, he remained defiant in his approach to the virus, very likely costing him his own reelection. Based on exhaustive reporting and hundreds of hours of interviews from inside the disaster zone at all levels of authority, Nightmare Scenario is a riveting account of how the United States government failed its people as never before, a tragedy whose devastating aftershocks will linger and be felt by generations to come.

The Mad Monks' Guide to California

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Author : James Crotty
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780028616667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Mad Monks' Guide to California written by James Crotty and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1999-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannibals, Surfboards, and, Like, Everything! In the deep, dark 1980s, Jim Crotty and Michael Lane quit their jobs, traded everything they owned for a 26-foot motorhome, and hit the road with their cats, their convictions, and a solar-powered Mac. Their mission: to travel the great American landscape and report on the incredible people, places, and parking lots they encountered along the way. One fateful day, their Monkmobile rattled into California… "Reading these guys is like watching a grainy, irreverent film about America— real, unreal, surreal." —The Boston Globe "[The Monks] don't simply document a chosen city or region. They dissect it, demystify it, revel in its oddities." —San Diego Union Tribune "Modern troubadors…writing about themselves and America." —The New York Times "Kerouacs of the ’90s." —The Seattle Times "An unshaven version of Travel & Leisure." —Utne Reader Dockweiler State Beach Museum of Jurassic Technology Slab City ■ Mojave Airport Pacific Lumber Company Saint Stupid's Day Parade Columbarium ■ Sixteen to One Mine Banana Man ■ Nudist Colonies The Astrophysicist of Love L.A. Police Academy ■ Madonna Inn Forestiere Underground Gardens Foster's Big Horn ■ Critical Mass Devil's Golf Course Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum Deep Creek Hot Springs Sagely, City of 10,000 Buddhas and more, More, More Visit us Online at www.frommers.com

Desert City Diva

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Author : Corey Lynn Fayman
Publisher : Severn House Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9780727895523
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Desert City Diva written by Corey Lynn Fayman and published by Severn House Large Print. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolly Waters has a new client. Macy Starr wants Rolly to find out what happened to the woman who rescued her as a child and then disappeared. The only clue she has is a one-stringed guitar. His investigation leads to a world of alien-obsessed cults, a strange desert hideaway, and to a 20-year-old unsolved murder case.

Sightseeking

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Author : Christopher J. Lenney
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654636
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Sightseeking written by Christopher J. Lenney and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startlingly original synthesis of keen observation and interpretive skill that will transform one s understanding of New England s man-made landscape"