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Fallen Glory The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings

James Crawford

An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents―gods, k...

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James Crawford wrote this book about the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings. GeoCities was included in the book because the author viewed it as a place that was inhabited, even though it was not a physical space.

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This is James Crawford the author of fallen glory the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings

— Episode: The Lost Cities of Geo Redux

Episode: The Lost Cities of Geo Redux

James Crawford wrote this book about the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings. GeoCities was included in the book because the author viewed it as a place that was inhabited, even though it was not a physical space.

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This is James Crawford the author of fallen glory the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings

Geo cities was not a physical place But he included it in his book because the way he sees it it was inhabited like one that was something that I think Geo cities was really providing was was creating these communities and then Conceptualizing them as places as places you could go as neighborhoods on the net

James, crawford's book is called fallen glory the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings Geocities is just one small section of that book. There are a ton of other fascinating stories about lost and ruined buildings We'll have a link to that as well

I mean It's not necessarily art, but it's absolutely Culture james crawford again, you know, this is what we've always done as humans

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