Tag: Towns

December 21, 2024

Looking Back Mississippi Towns and Places

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Free Download Forrest Lamar Cooper, "Looking Back Mississippi: Towns and Places"
English | ISBN: 1617031488 | 2011 | 224 pages | EPUB | 37 MB
For the past three decades, historian and archivist Forrest Lamar Cooper has written a regular column for Mississippi Magazine about unusual, fascinating aspects of the state’s history, culture, products, and people. Whether describing the Jubilee Beverage Company of Jackson, the origins of the Mississippi State Fair, a Mississippi veteran who fought at Iwo Jima, or Biloxi’s Riviera Hotel, Cooper’s "Looking Back" columns are thoroughly researched and written with verve and clarity.

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September 15, 2024

European Cities and Towns 400-2000

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Free Download European Cities and Towns: 400-2000 by Peter Clark
English | April 15, 2009 | ISBN: 0199562733, 0198700547 | True PDF | 432 pages | 1.7 MB
Since the Middle Ages Europe has been one of the most urbanized continents on the planet and Europe’s cities have firmly stamped their imprint on the continent’s economic, social, political, and cultural life.

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September 12, 2024

Minnesota’s Lost Towns Northern Edition

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Free Download Rhonda Fochs, "Minnesota’s Lost Towns Northern Edition"
English | 2014 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0878397639 | EPUB | 103,4 mb
The long-awaited second book in theMinnesota’s Lost Townsseries is now available. Travel along as we visit and learn about more than 125 central Minnesota locations. The book covers twenty-six of Minnesota’s central corridor counties, from east to west. Read how the towns were created, how they developed and lived, and why they died. Discover the people and places of Minnesota’s past. Filled with tales and photos, the book is a fun and educational read for anyone who loves history or a good story.

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June 6, 2024

Escaping the Housing Trap The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis [Audiobook]

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Free Download Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LZF938 | 2024 | 10 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Charles (Chuck) Marohn and Daniel Herriges introduce a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. This is the key insight that’s been missing from the Housing Crisis Conversation; and the insight that can help cities fight back against the crisis from the bottom-up. This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals. Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-have resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone. Listeners will find discussions of housing as an investment and how the country’s neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment; explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism; and a comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis.

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April 26, 2024

Skidoo A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West

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Free Download Simon Pare, "Skidoo: A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1907973958 | EPUB | pages: 84 | 0.7 mb
Decades after westward expansion swept over it, settled it, and domesticated it, the Wild West remains a potent source of American myth and mystery. But the actual history, and the traces of it that remain, are at least as interesting as the fiction, and in Skidoo, writer and novelist Alex Capus takes us on a fascinating tour of the skeleton of the American West―the ghost towns and collapsing mines that lie far from interstates and airports, lost in history.

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April 26, 2024

Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes

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Free Download Michaela Antonín Malaníková, "Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes"
English | ISBN: 1032347376 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns.

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