After decades of decline, the city looked like a set for an apocalyptic movie, especially in the crush of winter, when the sky was a perpetual charcoal gray.

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Only briefly a thriving commercial artery, it has been diminished by its own decay and by the roads and air routes that have sprung up around it.

His prosperity is on the decline.

As shopping malls decline, they sometimes come to resemble the civic centres that Gruen intended them to be.