[PDF] The Ghost Cities Of Australia eBook

Author : Julian Bolleter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319898965

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This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century population growth are borne out, we will need to build new cities this century. This is particularly the case in northern Australia, where the federal government projects a four-fold increase in population in the next four decades. The book aims that, when we commence 21st century new city dreaming, we have learnt from the mistakes of the past and, are not doomed to repeat them.

Author : George Farwell
Publisher : Adelaide : Rigby
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN :

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Brief references to Aborigines, NT, Qld, including pp.76-78; Jack the Ripper, Innamincka and pituri trade (SA); pp.136-172; 19th century violent conflicts, poor relations with settlers, miners; employment on coffee plantations, cannibalism in Port Douglas, Palmer and Daintree Rivers area; pp.216-223; Port Essington Malay trade, hostilities.

Author : Barry McGowan
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780734407337

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Other cultures have lost civilisations, we have ghost towns. Australian landscapes are littered with the half-buried remains of once thriving towns. The renowned pioneering spirit of settler society often faltered under the onslaught of changed circumstances--mine yields that declined, industry that failed and the end of penal colonies. Some towns are in ruins today, while others have become tourist destinations, such as Port Douglas, Port Arthur and Oodnadatta. This extensively researched book delves into the stories of these ghost towns--rich with memories of turmoil, perseverance, resistance and dogged optimism

Author : Wade Shepard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1783602201

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Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty.

Author : Michael Pryor
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1760638897

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Let's get this straight - ghosts are everywhere. And they're dangerous. This is why my family has hunted them for hundreds of years. The Marin family run a two-man operation in inner-city Melbourne. Anton has the ghost-sight, but his father does not. Theirs is a gentle approach to ghost hunting. Rani Cross, combat-skilled ghost hunter from the Company of the Righteous, is all about the slashing. Anton and Rani don't see eye to eye - but with a massive spike in violent ghost manifestations, they must find a way to work together. And what with all the blindingly terrifying brushes with death, Anton must use his gap year to decide if he really wants in on the whole ghost-hunting biz . . . Gap Year in Ghost Town is smart, funny and scary - with extra action and attitude. 'FILLED WITH GHOSTLY INTRIGUE AND DELIGHTFUL CHARACTERS, MICHAEL PRYOR'S LATEST NOVEL IS PURE ENTERTAINMENT.' Books + Publishing

Author : Michael Pryor
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1760871575

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So, how's my gap year going? Is it giving me a taste of the ghost-hunting business or is it just dumping me into situations where I could end up dead, or worse? Lingerers. Moaners. Thugs. Weepers. So many ghosts. Not enough graveyard shifts in a night. When an extreme ghost plague descends on the city, Anton and Rani must work overtime to keep the city safe and to find the source of the new aggressive ghost outbreak. And it amps up to another level after ghost hunters become the hunted. Anton and Rani will need all their wits and wiles about them if they are to manage the ghost influx, get to the truth about the Elsewhere and navigate the night with all their limbs intact. Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town is thoroughly entertaining and full of nail-biting ghostly action and adventure.