Despite a decade-long renaissance, many still view the city as a national symbol of urban decline.

I have my own version of the "broken windows" theory of urban decline.

Too often regional issues are neglected in an attempt to understand and to moderate urban decline.

Manhattan's Chinatown has fought off the forces of urban decline.

Very similar debates arose in the discussion of urban decline.

Pivotal developments like the civil rights movement, urban decline and consumerism began years earlier, they say.

This included racial conflict, the passing of the older generation, social alienation and urban decline.

New Orleans has suffered from the same problems with sinking property values and urban decline as other major cities.

The period from 1945 through the 1970s was marked in many American cities by urban decline in older, more industrial areas.

Still, Siegel's book is a useful addition to the contemporary debate about the causes of urban decline.