Starting over in Ghost Town: they found perfect village to escape 9-to-5 by Kirsten Dirksen on September 28, 2025 Shaniko, Oregon — once the “Wool Capital of the World” — went bust more than a century ago and with …
She got ancient hermit tower, cave & chapel for the price of a car by Kirsten Dirksen on July 27, 2025 In the wild, stony hills of the Mani Peninsula—once home to pirates, hermits, and feuding clans— Elena Zervoudakis stumbled upon …
Bought whole ghost-town. They connected ruins in dream maze ꡙ by Kirsten Dirksen on February 6, 2023 Thirty-five years ago, Barbara Varese’s family began buying abandoned homes in a tiny Italian hamlet, and today she has united …
Spent 5 years fixing old house-barn by hand. It was worth it by Kirsten Dirksen on January 30, 2022 When Enrico Gri discovered the wild Orco Valley during a ski mountaineering trip, he fell in love with the idea …
Found a derelict Portuguese hamlet. Settled in to revive it by Kirsten Dirksen on March 15, 2020 “Now, the rural is the revolutionary” – José Luis Peixoto Pedro Pedrosa and his wife Sofia left city life over …
Restoring medieval tower house near Sparta as life project by Kirsten Dirksen on February 17, 2019 Over 35 years ago, Kostas Zouvelos and his then-fiancé Kassiani Theodorakakou saw a for sale sign on a crumbling early …
Family fixes home in ghost-town lab & tells others to follow by Kirsten Dirksen on January 27, 2019 With 25,000 euros and 1,000 hours of work, Maurizio Cesprini and his partner Paola Gardin rebuilt a ruined home in …
A spaghetti western on lean urbanism (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 11, 2015 What makes a good shelter? For thousands of years we’ve been attempting to regulate the idea. Even the bible had …
West Texas ghost town experimental construction & revival by Kirsten Dirksen on April 27, 2015 A century ago, Terlingua, Texas was a bustling mining town (by 1922 it was supplying the nation with 40% of …
Slow renaissance of medieval ghost town in Spanish Pyrenees by Kirsten Dirksen on October 18, 2011 Fifty or sixty years ago, residents of small rural Spanish towns abandoned their centuries-old villages in search of a new …
