Ahmedabad proper, within the walls, is a bazaar, a huge market intermixed with the old dilapidated residential neighbourhoods of the pols.
A temple which is 'radiant', he says, has tremendous impact on people, whereas one which is dilapidated reflects a community which is disintegrating.
His father came to a dilapidated farm in 1860.
Much less space was now needed for locking up offenders and a number of dilapidated penal institutions were shut down.
Westerwalder traders concentrated in a neighbourhood consisting of small and dilapidated houses.
An important point is that most of these firms were running below capacity and plants were in badly dilapidated condition.
The dilapidated one-horse town, cut off from modernity, also belongs to a fast-receding past.
These are located in the middle- and lower-middle-class neighbourhood of small grocery stores, departmental stores, bookstores, and dilapidated apartment and office buildings.