Sentence examples for urban breakdown from inspiring English sources

Carmen Disruption, at the Deutches Schauspielhaus, twists Bizet's opera into a fragmented text about urban breakdown and globalisation.

As the boy crawls out of the wreckage, he's confronted with a scene of complete urban breakdown.

Litter, she said, was symbolic of urban breakdown, which she wanted to forestall; but she also wanted to avoid getting a summons from the Sanitation Department.

For households in urban areas, the breakdown in law and order has made it harder to get food.

In urban environments, the breakdown of chemicals and pollutants, especially ions and metal compounds, can be favoured by green water infrastructures (GWIs).

He warned that the black family "is highly unstable, and in many urban centers approaching complete breakdown", concluding that the federal government must enact policies that "bring the Negro American to full and equal sharing of responsibilities and rewards of citizenship".

In its broad contours, the phenomenon of hip-hop -- the creative bloom of language, fashion, rap music, break dancing and graffiti that came together in New York in the 1970's -- was as much as anything a response by urban teenagers to a breakdown of the family.

Some experts explain the increase by saying that more families are coming forward to report the crimes, while others blame a combination of social and cultural factors, including the mass migration of unskilled laborers from rural areas to urban centers, and the breakdown of the traditional close-knit Indian family.

Indeed, an extremely popular 1949 novel, Earth Abides, portrayed the breakdown of urban systems and structures after a pandemic, through the eyes of a survivor, who muses at the end of the first chapter: "What would happen to the world and its creatures without man?

Ms. Anawe blames the increase in child offenders on poverty, migration to urban areas and the breakdown of the family unit.

"Unfortunately, as L.A. gets to be more urban, it has these breakdowns of trust that happen in big cities," said Joel Kotkin, a Los Angeles resident and author of "The City: A Global History".