postindustrial
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This is an urban school in a majority-black city, set in the postindustrial Deep South.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Really, it’s more like the stuff of a landfill, Hesselein said, or a postindustrial brownfield.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024
"The Sopranos" existed in a postindustrial suburban world.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024
Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA, conducted research on hunter-gatherer societies in Tanzania, Bolivia, and Namibia that revealed similar sleep patterns to humans in postindustrial societies.
From National Geographic • Jan. 4, 2024
It’s powerful and unhinged and overbuilt — a monument to the entropy of the postindustrial city, and the tenuous dance of its inhabitants.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
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