![]() Since then, major structural changes in global economies, transportation, and government policy created the economic and then the social conditions resulting in urban decay. Since the 1970s and 1980s, urban decay has been associated with Western cities, especially in North America and parts of Europe. ![]() It may feature deindustrialization, depopulation or changing population, restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape. Urban decay is the process whereby a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. Freebase (3.00 / 9 votes) Rate this definition:
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