Since the idea of a motorway box inside the city was abandoned because of local opposition in the 1960s, nobody has put forward a better idea for what to do.
Winn Gardens in Sheffield was one of the worst affected areas in the city, with dozens of homes having to be abandoned when the River Don flooded.
His emaciated body was found by hikers later that autumn in the rusted-out hulk of a 1946 Fairbanks City Transit bus, which had been abandoned in the woods by a work crew many years earlier after breaking its axle along a remote stretch of the trail.
He eventually abandoned his car in the Twerton area of the city before checking in at a bed and breakfast.
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Mr Maloney started a new campaign at the end of last month in the car park of an abandoned Chinese restaurant in Waterbury, a struggling blue-collar city.
The DUP has abandoned its campaign to have the Union flag flown every day at the Cenotaph in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
Residents in a road in Liverpool say they "feel abandoned" by the city council after the scrapping of a scheme to build new homes.
Ms Bokova was impressed by the post-flood recovery works and was particularly interesting in learning about the plans for restoring the historic water management system of Ayutthaya, which had been put in place by the founders of the city but was later abandoned and covered by urban housing and street constructions.
To please officials in the city of Haicheng, close to Xiyang Village, Mr Zhou abandoned a plan to build a steel factory in the southern port of Beihai, where there would be ready access to ore shipped from Australia.
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City councillors have agreed to a more modest plan than the one that was abandoned in January following much opposition from the public.
He joined one of the city's most prominent black churches, Trinity United, and abandoned his youthful agnosticism in favour of Christianity (Trinity's Afrocentric bent, with its African visitors and women dressed in African robes, may have particularly appealed to the son of an African).
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