“Place can function as the most powerful organizing theme of shared meaning. Street corners and neighborhoods, parks and schools, monuments and memorials— these are not just spots on a map. They are what hold the abstraction of social life
together” (Gordon and Koo, 2008: 206)
The Boston Diaries
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