“…What might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. …”

“…Heart Mountain became a town with workplaces, social groups, and political alliances-in short, networks. …”

“…A large abandoned industrial area on the outskirts of a town or a small interstitial space in a historical centre can be residual. …”

“…Dutton begins by describing the college household materials on which such performances drew, adopting a productively broad definition of this category that includes the people working, studying, and teaching at St John’s, as well as their immediate neighbours in town; the college’s domestic furnishings, such as tables, paintings, and candles; the matter covered there in lectures; and the university’s own medieval foundations. …”

“…Chapter 2 provides summaries of the excavations carried out within the city of Exeter between 1812 and 2019, while Chapter 3 draws together the evidence for the plan of the legionary fortress and the streets and buildings of the Roman town. Chapter 4 presents the medieval documentary evidence relating to the excavations at three sites in central Exeter (High Street, Trichay Street and Goldsmith Street), with the excavation reports being in Chapter 5-7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mostar, 1994-2001: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention in a Bosnian Town 95 -- The city that was 99 -- War and partition 100 -- A tenuous bridge: international intervention in partitioned Mostar, 1994-2001 106 -- Politics: the persistence of polarization 116 -- Other dimensions of partition: economy, education, culture, symbols 131 -- Conclusion: lessons of Mostar 142 -- 4. …”

“…Through the lens of their lives, the author examines the growth of state control over schools, the irrevocable impact of powerful economic and political changes on small-town life, and the patterns of racism that have divided California since the earliest European settlements."…”

“…Like other design professionals - architects, engineers, town planners, programmers - teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. …”

“…As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident--people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children. …”