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"How small is your town? Full-page photographs, simple sentences, and relevant key words help early learners discover where they live. This book also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggest guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension"--

"English Nationalism and its Ghost Towns situates the rise in nationalism and resentment towards society and politics within the decline of the post-war era and the loss of well-paid industrial jobs, increase in non-unionised service employment and the hollowing out of community spirit"--

Introduction: the medium is the message, revisited: media and Black epistemologies -- Technological darwinism -- Black escapism on the underground (Black) anthropocene -- Toward a theory of intercommunal media -- Black "matter" lives: Michael Brown and digital afterlives -- Conclusion: the reparations of the earth.

"The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns addresses the theoretical, methodical and practical issues related to the development of small towns and neighbouring countryside. Small towns play a very important role in spatial structure by performing numerous significant developmental functions for rural areas. At the local scale, they act as engines for economic growth of rural regions and as a link in the system of connections between large urban centers and countryside. The book addresses the role of small towns in the local development of regions in countries with different levels of development and economic systems, including those in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and Australia. Chapters address the functional structure of small towns, relations between small towns and rural areas and the challenges of spatial planning in the context of shaping the development of small towns. Students and scholars of urban planning, urban geography, rural geography, political geography, historical geography, population geography will learn about the role of small towns in the local development of countries representing different economic systems and developmental conditions"--

"This book addresses issues that waterfronts face in small Mediterranean port towns due to the increase in the tourism industry. Integrating theory and pragmatic approaches, Waterfront Design in Small Port Towns proposes a design matrix which can go on to be implemented to waterfronts globally. The demand for a sustainable regeneration of the urban waterfront is constantly growing and represents the ultimate challenge to preserve and value the uniqueness of the region and to activate an overall redevelopment of small port towns. To understand these issues, Waterfront Design in Small Port Towns contains an in-depth investigation of the cultural and environmental assets and spatial socio-economic factors of the urban waterfront. This is conducted through the author's original methodological framework, the Waterfront Design Matrix, which responds to the specific scales and idiosyncrasies of the archetypical waterfront. The methodological and theoretical approach developed in the book can be applied to different geographical locations and countries, presenting comparable characteristics. This book is an ideal read for professionals and students alike with an interest in urban design and planning"--

The teenage girl and the ranch owner -- The father and the friend -- The funeral and the skateboard -- The killer -- The drowning, the women and the mother -- Mental health and the getaway -- The rumors -- The sprees -- The stalker -- The redbird -- The crime scene photographer and the cousin -- Evil personified -- The picture in the casket -- The post-murder meltdown -- The state hospital -- The psychiatric team diagnosis -- The posthumous birthday gift -- The foreclosure -- The trial stay to first day -- The admission -- Faking bad -- The psychiatrists' say -- The jury deliberates -- The verdict -- The sentence -- The death row inmate -- Rockefeller's goodwill and peace to prisoners -- The fifth marriage and the escape -- The chest pains and newspaper clippings -- The string pulling -- The keep forever letters -- Oregon or bust -- The logjam loosened -- The final headline -- The Cathie road trips -- Appendix : what happened to them?

"In disease cluster communities across the country, environmental contamination from local industries is often suspected as a source of disease. But civic action is notoriously hampered by the slow response from government agencies to investigate the cause of disease and the complexities of risk assessment. In Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town, Laura Hart examines another understudied dimension of community inaction: the role of emotion and its relationship to community experiences of social belonging and inequality. Using a cancer cluster community in Northwest Ohio as a case study, Hart advances an approach to risk that grapples with the complexities of community belonging, disconnect, and disruption in the wake of suspected industrial pollution. Her research points to a fear driven not only by economic anxiety, but also by a fear of losing security within the community-a sort of pride that is not only about status, but connectedness. Hart reveals the importance of this social form of risk-the desire for belonging and the risk of not belonging-ultimately arguing that this is consequential to how people make judgements and respond to issues. Within this context where the imperative for self-protection is elusive, affected families experience psychosocial and practical conflicts as they adapt to cancer as a way of life. Considering a future where debates about risk and science will inevitably increase, Hart considers possibilities for the democratization of risk management and the need for transformative approaches to environmental justice"--

"Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence and Activism is a street ethnography that describes how fifteen men and women (ages 21-48), formerly involved with the streets, studied and did activism on gun violence in Wilmington, Delaware. This team examined how race, ethnicity, gender, poverty, white-wealth and small-city size contributed to a street identity and especially the spread of gun violence. Drawing on the voices of the streets, this book project is in part a research-driven response to an infamous 2014 Newsweek article, "Murder Town USA (aka) Wilmington, Delaware," which focused on how a small city's identity was forged by white wealth, gun violence and Black poverty. Murder Town, USA further argues the voices most likely to perpetuate and be victimized by gun violence, is what's missing most from discussions on gun violence. It is only through and with the streets that it is possible to fully understand and stop the violence in their neighborhoods"--