Sentence examples for derelict infrastructure from inspiring English sources

The immediate challenge requires investment to deal with historic bottlenecks: dismal health, poor education and derelict infrastructure, notably in transportation and power generation.

But oil industry insiders also speak of derelict infrastructure.

The situation of the health sector has been described by the newly established Minister of Health as "dismal, with a system that is severely fragmented across multiple actors and numerous vertical programs, largely unregulated, inefficient, under-funded, with a derelict infrastructure and an impoverished and internally distorted work-force m [ 115].

Some prefer to sleep on the streets rather than live in Greece's derelict industrial infrastructure, out of sight and out of mind, cut off from volunteers and local populations.

Much of its infrastructure is derelict despite government regeneration funding.

They say that little time is spent on trying to reform the city's derelict civil service and infrastructure.

On an early visit, staff were struck by the presence of a new HIV clinic — stocked with needed medicines and supplies and staffed by a proud health worker –- while across the street was a district hospital —derelict, no supplies, crumbling infrastructure, few staff, and patients lying on the ground for lack of beds.

Instead of knocking down estates such as the Heygate, and replacing one form of utopianism with another, she favours adapting the infrastructure that already exists – bringing derelict and unused property back into use, converting empty commercial buildings for residential use, making sure every council property is occupied – and plugging the gaps with small-scale developments.

With urban derelict land becoming an important part of the urban green infrastructure, information about the perception and acceptance by residents compared to formal urban parks is important for their planning and design.

With the early 1960s growth of containerisation, New York's loss of industrial waterfront jobs during this period was evident on the canal and, with the failure of the city sewage and pump station infrastructure along the canal, Gowanus was used as a derelict dumping place.

Major areas of derelict land around the city core together with the impediments created by regional road infrastructure have combined to create a doughnut city that, on the one hand, facilitates a commuting middle class, while on the other, discriminates against the poorest inner city communities.