Sentence examples for urban catastrophe from inspiring English sources

History remembers the South Bronx in the 1970s as an urban catastrophe; the ground zero of a city in crisis.

Several other pieces in this show were inspired by a more recent urban catastrophe, the devastation of New Orleans by natural disaster and governmental neglect.

The world is at a crossroads: inaction will reduce citizen welfare, increase costs and insecurity and eventually risk urban catastrophe as resources are depleted and climate damages mount.

The effects are ambitious, and one spectacular urban catastrophe wittily concludes with a collapsing wall nudging a Newton's cradle just hard enough to set it in motion.

Don't smoke, don't drive down this street – and if you drive down this street while smoking you'll really get punished!" Apart from political gripes, others thought that the songs were too tamely retro to suit an urgent urban catastrophe.

Somewhere, buried beneath the wreck of its current condition - one of urban catastrophe - is the city that has a tight claim on my heart, a beautiful city by the sea, an island-state of hope in a very old country.

The tendency is especially clear, if almost a little obvious, in the work of Kelley Walker, who plants bright little digitally derived shapes across color photographs of train wrecks and other urban catastrophes and a cracked and crumpled car windshield.

Far from a well-designed socialist city, this was an urban planning catastrophe with the chaotic outlaw atmosphere of a frontier town.

Barring apocalyptic catastrophes [e.g., 6], urban and suburban habitats will be among the most common habitats on Earth for many generations to come and the most common setting for human interactions with wild species [5].

It is a catastrophe and a fact of urban life, a political issue and a mass of individual stories.

In May, Bob Herbert, the former New York Times Op-Ed columnist, castigated the president in the online magazine The Grio for his failure to address publicly the "catastrophe" of children growing up in urban poverty.