The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.
Poking around old hill towns like Castagneto Carducci can sometimes turn up fascinating and very particular enterprises.
And there are the abiding pleasures like the old hill towns--very much lived-in and un-boutique-ified--such as Morellino di Scansano, Suvereto, and Magliano in Toscana.
It is located just a few miles to the west of another UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh World Heritage Trust has been using thermal imaging cameras to show residents of the capital's old and new towns how best to cut their bills.
Antonine Wall, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, New Lanark, Old and New Towns of Edinburgh and St Kilda, will be joined by a delegation representing the Historic Town of St George World Heritage Site in Bermuda, a British overseas territory.
This, along with the thick perimeter wall around the city, is an age-old technique in Arab towns.
Travel inland and you find towns where old scores are still unsettled and feuds between rival criminal families persist.
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It excuses bad behavior, makes redemption possible and enables construction of entire mock Old West ghost-towns.
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It's a mix of prosperous green suburbs, wooded rural areas, and old-line factory towns trying to adapt to the service economy.
Many seaside towns are already old, so it is hard for them to become much older.
Now, spurred by the tourist potential, and by the interest of Brazil's urban middle class, dozens of towns and cities are doing up old buildings or even entire neighbourhoods.
"It wouldn't bother me a bit, " says Towns, a 62-year-old who's lived here all his life and watched friends and neighbors move away.
Only the old, and to date still not recovering, industrial towns of Providence, R.
That is one reason why America's growing towns and new suburbs are more racially integrated than its old cities.
"For me, it was tragic to watch the centuries-old fabric of communal coexistence being torn apart in the mixed Bosnian towns and villages, " Jim adds.
Fairport is also one of the most picturesque towns on the canal with its almost 100-year-old, fully operational lift-bridge and downtown dock.
South of Indianapolis, the state feels more like Kentucky and the old South, its hilly landscape dotted with livestock, roadside churches and small rural towns such as Martinsville, where, one could reasonably estimate, tattoos outnumber people.
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In some towns, the shrine is bedecked with their photographs, in others with their old clothes, or favourite food.
Meatpacking companies have responded to international competition by shifting their operations from old industrial cities, with their heavily unionised workforces and restrictive practices, to rural areas and small towns.
Cars, and urban sprawl, also devastated the old means of drumming up excitement and a sense of community parades and the big top became meaningless in towns with no center.
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