0 the process by which a country or area depends less and less on industry to provide most of its work or income: --
1 the reduction of the amount of industry in an area or a country: --
The photographs show Philadelphia rising up in the industrial age and deteriorating through the post-war years of deindustrialization.
At the same time, deindustrialization opened a number of new areas to residential development.
Results of the riots include the increase in pace of the areas ongoing deindustrialization and public and private disinvestment.
Cleanup has been accomplished through better treatment plants, tighter environmental regulations, deindustrialization and increased public awareness.
Previous to this, the state had been hit hard by deindustrialization and resulting unemployment.
After the deindustrialization of the 1970s almost all the factories left the area, and it became one of the poorest in the city.
Our country is facing three mortal dangers: de-industrialization, de-population and mental debilitation.
The deindustrialization of the 1970s saw most of the land abandoned.
They suggest deindustrialization may be both an effect and a cause of poor economic performance.
