Sentence examples for urban collapse from inspiring English sources

"The alternative to resilience is failure, it's urban collapse.

Times Square still meant something, as it always had, but now the meaning was "urban collapse".

Blindness is a drum-tight drama, with superb, hallucinatory images of urban collapse.

Our screens have been filled with images of urban collapse and apocalyptic destruction, dystopian wastelands and zombie hordes.

For him, Phoenix's history of "self-destructive decisions" has left it facing "urban collapse from some extreme state of resource scarcity".

Laying bare the country's most startling example of modern urban collapse, census data on Tuesday showed that Detroit's population had plunged by 25 percent over the last decade.

Here we describe the response to an urban building collapse in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, including a description of the event, type and severity of casualties, and lessons learned.

Urban life collapsed, patronage of the arts all but ceased, and the centuries-old Mediterranean traditions of artistic training and production died out almost everywhere.

The Byzantine Empire, India, and China continued to fortify their cities with walls and towers, while in Europe urban civilization collapsed with the fall of the Roman Empire and the ensuing Middle Ages.

INCREASING wealth has allowed some people to insulate themselves from collapsing urban infrastructure.

Throughout this carefully researched history, Stewart conjures the urban decay and collapsed industries of early-80s Britain.