Dozens of economically depressed rural towns, fearing that the city would stifle any chance for development and growth, banded together to fight the plan.

To some, the project offers hope to the economically depressed town.

Ireland has recently grown prosperous; it was hard to find a depressed town to stand in for the one in the novel.

Close friends Rae and Carla live an impoverished life in a quiet, depressed Southern town.

In Hoyerswerda, a depressed eastern town, rightist attackers recently scored a victory.

We're a depressed town, but this isn't going to help.

Beacon is an economically depressed town about an hour north of Manhattan, and its location offered the opportunity to combine culture and urban renewal.

Like other chronically depressed towns along the shore, Long Branch had its heyday decades ago.

In an economically depressed town of fewer than 13,000 residents, 98 percent of them white, it was an oasis of diversity.

Suhl is a depressed industrial town best known for the manufacture of firearms.