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April 26, 2024

The Brooklyn Home Modern Havens in the City

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Free Download The Brooklyn Home: Modern Havens in the City by Bill Caleo, Lyndsay Caleo Karol, Fitzhugh Karol
English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 1419766708 | 224 pages | MOBI | 36 Mb
Featuring a collection of homes that embody the influential Brooklyn Home Company’s aesthetic, this book introduces readers to the design firm’s signature method.

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April 26, 2024

Straßburg MM-City Reiseführer Michael Müller Verlag

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Free Download Straßburg MM-City Reiseführer Michael Müller Verlag by Michael Müller Verlag
German | 2023 | ISBN: 3966850621 | 390 pages | PDF | 30 Mb
Anders reisen und dabei das Besondere entdecken: Mit den aktuellen Tipps aus den Michael-Müller-Reiseführern gestalten Sie Ihre Reise individuell, nachhaltig und sicher.

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April 26, 2024

Seattle City of Literature Reflections from a Community of Writers

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Free Download Ryan Boudinot, "Seattle City of Literature: Reflections from a Community of Writers"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1570619867 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.3 mb
This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city to receive the UNESCO designation as a City of Literature, this deeply textured anthology pays homage to the literary riches of Seattle. Strongly grounded in place, funny, moving, and illuminating, it lends itself both to a close reading and to casual browsing, as it tells the story of books, reading, writing, and publishing in one of the nation’s most literary cities.

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April 26, 2024

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City (EPUB)

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Free Download Yousuf Al-Bulushi, "Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City "
English | ISBN: 3031424328 | 2024 | 239 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in a global struggle against racial capitalism learn from the South African experience? This book explores the relationship between shack dwellers and the municipal government in South Africa. Grounded in the local realities of the struggle for housing and basic survival, the project makes broader interventions in national, continental and global debates about urban geography, African studies, social movements and race. The author argues that the shack settlement is emblematic of a democratic South Africa still profoundly shaped by apartheid’s afterlife.

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April 26, 2024

Portrait of an Industrial City ‘Clanging Belfast’, 1750-1914

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Free Download Stephen Royle, "Portrait of an Industrial City: ‘Clanging Belfast’, 1750-1914"
English | 2011 | pages: 174 | ISBN: 1908448067 | EPUB | 5,9 mb
‘Hammers clanging’ was the sound that the great nineteenth-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray associated with Belfast when he visited it in 1842. By then, Belfast’s industrial development was well under way. Had Thackeray visited the city in 1900, he would not have been surprised to find that it was by then the fastest-growing city in the British Isles. It had outstripped Dublin as the largest on the island of Ireland; indeed, it ranked third in the British empire … and still echoed to the sound of those clanging hammers. Industry lay at the heart of the city’s manufacturing prowess. The shipyards dominated the central harbour area. The textile mills – over 200 of them – seemed to be on every street corner. The constant movement of workers and goods, the smells and sounds of constant industrial activity, and that distinctive clang of metal on metal, dominated the city’s daily life. The city’s expansion made it a magnet for the many thousands who migrated there in search of work. This forms the focus of the first chapter, ‘"The town broke loose" growth’. Belfast’s population multiplied many times between 1750 and 1914 – in 1900 only a quarter of the city’s population had been born there. Industrialisation was the engine of Belfast’s remarkable growth and the principal contributors to its industrial development – shipbuilding, linen and engineering – take pride of place in the second chapter. The hectic nature of the thriving and constant activity on the streets of the city (for example, ‘scavengers’ were employed to scoop up and recycle the manure left on the streets by horses) and the equally rumbustious local and national political goings-on at a critical time in Ireland’s history are given close attention. Throughout the book, the deft use of primary sources and documents illuminates the intriguing story of Belfast, an industrial city described in 1914, at the end of our period of interest, as ‘really a wonder’.

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