Newcomers to Old Towns

Preface
Part I Changes in the Heartland
1. Community Connections, Resources, and People
2. Dynamics of Small-Town Change
Part II Newcomers, Old Towns
3. A Persistent Agrarian Town: Smallville
4. Upscale Suburbanization: Prairieview
5. Boosterism Breeds Suburbanization: Bunkerton
6. Blue-Collar Ethnic Accommodation: Corntown
7. Ethnic Succession in Process: Arbordale
8. A Shabby, Dying Town: Splitville
Part III The Postagrarian Countryside
9. Whither the Rural Heartland?
Appendix A The Regional Suburbanization Neighborhood Hypothesis (with Matteo B. Marini)
Appendix B Community Sample Characteristics and Study Methods
References
Index