Sentence examples for through demolition from inspiring English sources

Some of these new homes were offset by the loss of 12,060 residences through demolition.

"A cultural relic is destroyed and a new phrase is born," said one commentary, a sarcastic reference to the city official who had described the destruction as "renovation through demolition".

Prowl the back streets of central Beijing any evening and you may find a spry gray-haired man, dressed in sagging undershirt, shorts and sandals, rummaging through demolition sites.

In any given year approximately 750 000 people lose their housing through demolition.

Revitalization is manifested through demolition, clearance, and redevelopment, or through rehabilitation, or restoration, or through a combination of these strategies.

The data also showed nearly 13,000 additional homes came from a change of use and there were 1,300 "other" gains, while 12,000 homes were lost through demolitions, very slightly fewer than the previous year.

Another previous contribution to the semiotics of abandonment, with different aims, was the project Detroit, Demolition, Disneyland.Sick of waiting for follow-through on demolitions delayed for years, an anonymous group painted properties a single, brilliant color from widely available paint lines.

One weekend I got through the demolition fence and went through it, top to bottom, looking for... things.

"These are the children who had free swimming taken away, who lived through the demolition of the Schools Sports Partnerships and lost the five-hour offer of PE".

A number of old buildings have been acquired and restored, and a schedule of other buildings to be acquired has been prepared to avoid the possibility that a major cultural loss might occur through their demolition.

The attachment to place requires severing it through wholesale demolition.