Centralia, Pennsylvania

In 1974, people using subways and railroads in and around New York were still riding on tracks laid between 1904 and 1933, the last year before Robert Moses came to power in the city. Not a single mile had been built since.

During the ensuing summer, a business section developed: a string of one- and two-story structures housing a bank, a general store, a Chinese laundry, and more, all of it resembling a mining outpost. On Christmas night of 1896, a fire broke out that…

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Violence, then, will not do as the primary explanation for the profound changes visible in Romano-British towns in the late fourth century and beyond. Those changes include the introduction of burial within walled areas, a practice specifically forbidden in Roman law; the construction of large, apparently public buildings that encroached on existin

but the city's expansion above the mined galleries led to collapsing tunnels and surface subsidence