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Between the 1700 and 1800s, Reading became an important centre for business and trade and grew into a thriving market town. Its three most important business became known as the three Bs – standing for beer, bulbs and biscuits.
The Story of Reading, Daphne Phillips, Countryside Books, 1999. Published in 1980, this book quickly gained acclaim and is now considered the standard modern history of Greater Reading, encompassing areas like Caversham, Tilehurst, Calcot, Earley, and Woodley. The third edition, revised, expanded, and updated by the author, chronicles Reading ...
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Red Hot City: Housing, Race and Exclusion in 21st-Century Atlanta by Dan Immergluck (University of California Press) While the housing crisis has spared few US cities, Red Hot City reveals how Atlanta’s accelerating housing costs are “paradigmatic” of those broader trends. “Since the foreclosure crisis, Atlanta is arguably the fastest-gentrifying c...
The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Workby Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen (TASCHEN) One way to conceptualize how technology has transformed human labor is by looking at the evolution of the workplace itself. The Office of Good Intentions, a lush, intellectual coffee table book featuring photographs by Iwan Baan, manages to both skewer and hon...
Focusing in on four cities facing “extreme hardship” — Stockton, California; Josephine County, Oregon; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Detroit, Michigan — Michelle Wilde Anderson introduces readers to the villain of fiscal austerity and the heroes in the community that rise up to take the place of gutted social services. “These efforts illustrate the ...
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Mar 20, 2019 · In my Reading 2050 lecture on 28 March, I will explore the likely future challenges and opportunities for Reading as a business services cluster in a changing economic landscape and show that Reading’s resilience to 2050 and beyond will need to take ‘good density’ into account.
Jan 7, 2022 · Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world.”. Bonus: Don’t miss other McMurtry novels set in Texas including Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment, and Streets of Laredo. 2. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ...
Oct 1, 2019 · Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new ...
Apr 2, 2018 · The historic Franklin Street railroad station in downtown Reading was once a passage in and out of the city. Serving the railroad from 1930 until 1981, the station sat vacant until 2013 when it was transformed into a modern transit centre to serve both buses and passenger trains.