Meanings of post-industrial wasteland in English

A walk through south Leeds reveals a district caught between industrial grandeur, post-industrial wasteland and urban blandness.

We are in New Islington, a post-industrial wasteland in north Manchester, a scene of truly compelling urban devastation.

But for three other docked hellhawks suckling their nutrient fluid from the hoses, it could have been a post-industrial wasteland.

Stourton, a working-class suburb bordering Holbeck, was transformed in the space of a few years from residential suburb to post-industrial wasteland.

After that great triumph, the following decades saw American cities decline and, in some cases such as Detroit, they were hollowed out into post-industrial wastelands.