As East Germany decayed, its citizens had nothing else to hold on to, whereas Westerners had been taught to suppress feelings of nationhood.
This system doesn't produce engaged citizens, but cogs for the decaying Communist system.
In the 1940s, before the city became tarnished by words like "blight" and "urban decay," Newark was an industrial powerhouse whose leading citizens thought its public art should reflect its ambitions and rival the collections of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
Several citizens from across the nation could speak to dangerous infrastructure decay because a GOP House wouldn't allow consideration of legislation that would provide for infrastructure improvement.
For three months, they rode alongside cops as they warred with citizens who were frustrated by the relentless pains of urban decay.
Written in the midst of the Lebanese civil war (which began in 1975 and went on until around 1990), "White Masks" portrays the infrastructural decay of Beirut and the psychological toll it took on its citizens.
Citizens have been calling for this plan to start ridding the city of decay and blight.
In The Constant Gardener (2001), which is set in "dangerous, decaying, plundered, bankrupt, once-British Kenya," he takes on pharmaceutical companies who used citizens in developing countries as guinea pigs in drug trials.
Many of our large cities are places where the infrastructure is decaying, neighborhoods are deteriorating, and hopes are dimming for a large number of citizens.
This system's failure to functionally serve the citizens brings Fukuyama to two other causes of legislative and executive weakness and, as he puts it, institutional decay.
