Citations:municide

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English citations of municide

Noun: "the demise of a city through economic collapse or disincorporation"

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  • 1986 — "No To A City Income Tax", Chicago Tribune, 12 May 1986:
    If he succeeds, it will be only because a lot of legislators want to see if Chicago really is foolish enough to commit municide, or whatever it's called when a city kills itself economically.
  • 2003 — Will Swaim, "Municide", OC Weekly, 18 December 2003:
    But disincorporation is such an ugly word. Let's call it "municide."
  • 2010Ben Schott, "Municide", The New York Times, 23 November 2010:
    Reporting in The Examiner that Hamtramck, Michigan, is seeking bankruptcy, Kenneth Schortgen Jr highlighted the term municide:
    Municide is a term coined by John Galt Fla, and describes the death of cities through economic and political destruction.