He confers grandeur on urban desolation without romanticizing it.

Furthermore, the concentration of dance companies, museums, performance spaces and whatever else on newly developed acreage is a recipe for urban desolation.

Were one permitted one confident prediction, it would be of the likelihood of an increasingly oppressive authority in areas of urban desolation.

The title was also used for the subsequent album, simply titled Warschau whose cover pictured a scene of urban desolation.

In his travelogue the author portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and urban desolation, and everyday life beside ancient monuments.

Novelists, movie makers, journalists and national politicians in search of urban desolation all headed for the Bronx.

Despite the urban desolation, he said, he remains optimistic.

They are Nehemiah Houses, built by the nonprofit East Brooklyn Congregations with government money, in an effort to reclaim order from urban desolation.

But the movie devotes so much of its energy to building and sustaining a mood of urban desolation that the story never quite jells.

Perhaps the most haunting and beautiful image is that of a building imploding in slow motion; urban desolation is rendered almost poetic in this musical context.