Meanings of dying city in English

They felt responsible for the dying city.

Then even he was silent, lost in awe at the crackle of the flames, the dying city.

The situation confronting the dying city now, and its citizens, too, posed problems enough without its being recomplicated by an unsatisfiable homesickness.

He, like all the candidates, said he was driven to prove the prime minister wrong and show Wellington was not a dying city.

"This," he said in a soft voice touching his breast, "or that," motioning toward the dying city.