The decline was more marked in urban areas.

这一下降趋势在城市地区尤为明显。

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Our rural populations continue to decline while urban and suburban areas multiply in size.

我们的农村人口持续下降，而城市和郊区人口成倍增长。

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Since then, much of the further decline may well have been the result of a lack of desire, in the case of urban couples especially, to have more than one child.

而自那以后，生育率的进一步滑坡可能更多需要归功于民众对多要一个孩子这件事并不那么感冒，在城市，这种现象尤其明显。

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Since the urban decline of the 1960s, courts have expanded the definition of "public use" to mean "public benefit, " allowing developers who promised higher tax revenue and jobs to seize property considered blighted.

WSJ: Battle of the Beach

What began with a decline in upstate urban districts has spread into suburban and rural districts, statistics show, forcing administrators to mothball buildings and explore not only team, but entire district, mergers.

WSJ: Declining NY enrollment blurs district lines

None of this suggests, however, that the American urban core is in a state of permanent decline.

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