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Believe it or not, the splendor of today's London can be traced back to the mire of the 14th century. This program uncovers the grimy truth as it illustrates just how filthy Britain's capital once was, and how medieval Londoners took desperate measures to combat rubbish buildup. With detailed computer animation revealing London's streets as they were 700 years ago, the film literally steps into a typical pedestrian's shoes-wooden platforms designed...
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Just over 200 years ago, Paris was one of the dirtiest cities in Europe. How did that suffocating urban environment give way to what we now know as the City of Light? This program sifts through the story of the French Revolution in the context of urban filth and its close link to social injustice. Depicting the settings in which thousands of Parisians toiled in toxic industries and suffered grotesque poverty and disease, the film profiles one of the...
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Fleeing persecution, poverty, and famine, millions of 19th-century Europeans arrived in a place that seemed worse than what they'd escaped-a seething Manhattan in the throes of the Industrial Revolution. This program uses eye-opening computer reconstructions to envision what waves of immigrants had to accept. It was a city consumed by filth and corruption, with a massive populace crammed into the slums of Lower Manhattan. The film looks at some of...
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Discusses the hollowing out of small-town America, a phenomenon in which young people graduate from high school and leave their small hometowns, many never to return, and discusses why it is important to the country to keep rural heartland towns growing and thriving.
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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Transportation - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Transportation - Special Collections Topics
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Abstract: Records, consisting of manuscripts, photographs, negatives and architectural plans, documenting the efforts of Historic Nashville, Inc. (HNI) to rescue and restore Nashville's historic Union Station, beginning with their initial efforts in 1975 and culminating in the reopening of the building as a hotel, and the observation of the 100th anniversary of the station and the 25th anniversary of Historic Nashville, Inc. in 2000.
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Scope and content: Annual reports from the Nashville Housing Authority (NHA) and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) from 1938 to 1996 (some years missing) and two project-specific reports on Capitol Hill Redevelopment Project (c. 1952) and Edgehill Redevelopment and Renewal Project (c. 1964). The collection documents the activities and mission of the Nashville Housing Authority and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency...