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urban decay

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meanings of urbanand decay


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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈɜː.bən/ us /ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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decay
noun[U]
uk /dɪˈkeɪ/ us /dɪˈkeɪ/
the process ...
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Examples of urban decay


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The difference is that at 75 or 85 years of age, people may feel an even greater sense of being trapped or disadvantaged by urbandecay.
Champaklakshmi does not subscribe to the much-debated thesis of urbandecay, which is believed to be a general historical phenomenon in the subcontinent in the post-third century ad.
That is where the industrial workers reside; it is where the great burdens of urbandecay, multiracial societies and ageing populations are.
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It experiences others indirectly by being part of a borough that contains areas of real urbandecay and social deprivation.
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We are building the wrong kind of houses in the wrong places and failing to tackle fully the urbandecay associated with that.
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They will be located in areas of economic decline and urbandecay and will extend to up to 500 acres.
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I have highlighted the housing problem because that is one of the most outward and visible signs of urbandecay.
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It can seriously transform particular areas of urbandecay.
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They have a major and honourable role to perform in combating urbandecay.
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The fact is that our streets are becoming dirtier, and there is a clear link between urbandecay and crime.
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They are riverside areas, areas of urbandecay and areas into which we are trying to attract new businesses.
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In short, it was an area where all the miseries associated with urbandecay and blight were about to take over.
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We live on a crowded island, and urbandecay and rural communities are close neighbours.
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Everyone recognised that the rundown of the docks and the urbandecay, compounded by poor housing and inadequate community facilities, presented an enormous challenge.
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There is urbandecay and a need for new industry, for diversification and modernisation of the environment generally.
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I accept the need for such a policy in areas of urbandecay and even in rural communities where there is bad housing.
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The disease which gnaws at the foundation of my constituency is not easily understood by contemporary observers of urbandecay.
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Possibly, therefore, urbandecay is not, after all, an inevitable consequence of present-day patterns of economic activity and transport.
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This is a national problem, and we should consider not only the reasons for urbandecay but the problems of the inner cities in particular.
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Those bands arise from staffing problems—those are habitual—and from difficulties that arise from the situation in schools in places where there is urbandecay.
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