With the decline of industry after World War II, Dogpatch, located on the eastern waterfront near Pier 70, fell into disrepair.
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While many other factors are contributing to the decline of the newspaper industry, such as the recession and a decline in advertising, the very fact that we are discussing this issue here, on a major, mainstream news network's Web site, is a demonstration of the indisputable rise of new media.
But in the 1960s, the decline of heavy industry meant that this city, with a population of 170, 000, shed more than 40, 000 jobs.
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"Take away the gains in the memory business, and what you would have had is a 1% percent decline for the industry overall, " Matas says.
Worldwide, sales of mobile phones have fallen to just below 400m in 2001, representing the first-ever decline in the industry, according to Gartner Dataquest, a research group.
Last month Frontier managed to boost revenue per seat by 4% over the same period last year--the first increase in 10 months--versus a 2.8% decline for the industry.
"A lot of it had to do with the decline of heavy industry, which employed a lot of blacks and blue-collar whites, in a whole set of Rust Belt states, " he said.
Meanwhile, in a survey conducted by the Federation of Master Builders, a third of small to medium-sized building firms said they feared they would have to cut staffing levels this year in the face of a continuing decline in the industry.
Shocked by the sharp decline in the industry during the commodity boom, the government, mining bosses and unions agreed four years ago to set up a joint team to return the industry to its glory as one of the mainstays of the economy.
You may make sad sounds when people talk about the decline of the newspaper industry.
Many mining communities never recovered from the dispute that hastened the decline of the coal industry.
Despite the years of decline, the cocoa industry is still the mainstay of Ghana's economy.
Mr Delaney wrote the decision was prompted by expectations of a continued decline in the tourism industry.
One was the decline of the shipping industry, which meant demand for hemp ropes and sails fell.
Steven Klepper from Carnegie Mellon has shown how large companies, in industry after industry, decline for two main reasons.
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Probably not: the price of sugar would drop, America's sugar industry would decline and the pollution of the Everglades would decrease.
Try coming here and telling the thousands of families suffering because of the decline of the motor industry that they are lazy.
Back in 2003, Mr Carp assumed that the film industry would decline by some 10% a year in America, and by 6% worldwide.
Some folks, because of the decline in the housing industry, are having trouble with mobility in finding new jobs and relocating in pursuit of opportunity.
High costs, low prices, a shortage of quota and tough restrictions on fishing have combined to bring about the sharp decline in the fisheries industry, Chris believes.
Decades of decline have left the industry short of engineers.
Besides, he says, it is a mistake to count the decline of the aerospace industry in the early 1990s, which was caused by the end of the cold war.
The structures that were put in place at privatisation were essentially designed to manage an industry in decline, but since then there has been a surge in passenger numbers.
One reason, he says, is that wages have fallen in real terms - in part the result of the decline of the manufacturing industry and lowering unionisation of the workplace.
The tobacco industry faces continuous industry volume decline in the U.S. due to growing health consciousness about the extreme health risks of tobacco consumption and the high excise taxation on tobacco products.
Several experts in the field outlined several issues that they said point to a decline in the mining industry, from poor ore grades to declines in drilling activity to misinformation on the investment side.
In 2012, the company cut 100 jobs blaming it on a decline in the tourist industry and closed all its businesses for two weeks in December 2008 after the island elected its first fully democratic government.
Years of imbalance between creative ideals and financial realities, personal problems amongst the label operators, an unwillingness to compromise our aesthetic standards, a tendency towards releasing challenging (i.e. unmarketable) artists, and the steady decline of the music industry in general, are amongst the chief reasons for our inability to continue.
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The NRF back-to-school outlook goes against the grain of recent lackluster news on the retail front, from a small industry sales decline in June to a reduced July sales forecast from discount giant Target, which announced on Monday that it expects to grow same-store sales 3% to 4% this month compared with last July's sales, down from an earlier 4% to 6% forecast.
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