When newspapers shrink, schools fragment, and civic institutions lose authority, a city begins to forget itself. Structural Schisms 8: Fading from the Map explains how institutional memory erodes—and why communities vanish quietly before they ever fail publicly.
Structural Schisms
Fading from the Map
civic memory loss
institutional decline
small city erosion
Hickory North Carolina analysis
civic identity collapse
local journalism decline
community fragmentation
systems failure in cities