本书中关于城市衰落的主要例证是底特律。

Detroit is the book's prime example of decline.

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多年的城市衰落和损坏之后，它在1984年被关闭了。

It was boarded up in 1984 after years of urban decay and vandalism.

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大型购物中心和大超市数量激增，而许多比较老式的城市购物区则衰落了。

Malls and big-box stores have proliferated, while many older urban shopping districts have declined.

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In the city-states of Venice, which was a major trading city already on the decline, and in Florence, and in Milan, and in Turin, and in places like that you find something very comparable, but Italy is not united until the 1860s.

在威尼斯城邦,这个曾以贸易为主的城市已经走向衰落,而佛罗伦萨,米兰,都灵,类似的这些城市情况都是如此,除了十九世纪六十年代才统一的意大利

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