Where Heritage Becomes Habit: Everyday Play with the Roman Past in a Spanish City

June 18, 2026.Reading time 19 minutes.

This is the seventh post in our series, Cities at Play. By Sandra Coffey In Tarragona, a coastal city in Catalunya, Spain, the past sits so casually in the Plaça del Fòrum that many first-time visitors stop in disbelief. Here, 1st century Roman ruins, the surviving remnants of the Provincial Forum of Roman Tarraco, lie […]

Tearing Down Misconceptions — A Review of “The Life and Death of Ancient Cities”

May 5, 2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

Woolf, Greg. The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Kathryn Grossman On December 21, 2020, then-President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” Stipulating that “classical architecture shall be the preferred and default architecture for Federal public buildings” in Washington, […]

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Where Heritage Becomes Habit: Everyday Play with the Roman Past in a Spanish City

Tearing Down Misconceptions — A Review of “The Life and Death of Ancient Cities”