Sentence examples for urban disintegration from inspiring English sources
The soaring crime rates and urban disintegration that ravaged other parts of the Bronx in the 1970s nurtured a sense that the communities were havens, but also fostered a bunker mentality of sorts.
"I knew subconsciously that these guys were the forerunners of a certain urban chaos and disintegration that would arrive later.
Mr. Tsai makes his movies -- elusive fables of urban drift and family disintegration set in a Taipei at once gaudy and gloomy -- with a classical discipline that reveals hidden emotional resonances in the clatter and blur of contemporary pop culture.
"We Are What We Are," Jorge Michel Grau's macabre fable of urban survival, follows the disintegration of a pod of people eaters when its diseased patriarch expires in a shopping mall.
While elections are a favoured means of the international community to point to progress in countries as wracked by poverty and political unrest as Haiti, most Haitians will tell a visitor that such exercises will count for little if not matched by a commitment to changing the destructive dynamic of rural disintegration and urban migration that has taken hold in recent years.
Slavery ceased gradually in the 6th and 7th centuries along with the decline of urban centres in the West and the disintegration of the complex Imperial economy that had created the demand for it.
But having matured as young adults in the age of 9/11, and having already experienced and survived the dissolution of family systems, the decline of the church, the decline of public education, the disintegration of community, and the revival of urban terrorism in America, if there is anything that my generation knows how to do, it is how to endure despite all the odds against us.
Miss McCarthy establishes a utopia of urban intellectuals on a New England mountaintop and lets us watch their disintegration as they seek to dig in on the glassy slopes of their hitherto untested ideals.
"History shows us that these policies have resulted in the gradual disintegration of cultural standards and governance; it has resulted in fringe communities in urban areas, in alcoholism and youth suicides, and in disempowerment," it said.
