But "sober" is not the word that leaps to mind at the mosque, which rises dramatically from the drab industrial sprawl of Casablanca.

Only one province of Kronos is depicted in the movie, as an unpopulated, industrial sprawl.

Soon we are in Michigan, plying through industrial sprawl that persists the whole way to Motown.

Athens, he said, has rapidly grown and without a development strategy, so that its industrial sprawl needed, somehow, to be restricted.

Still, something remarkable is going on in that green sculptured oasis in the industrial sprawl east of Trenton.

Nondescript industrial sprawl gave way to agricultural land, orchards and water buffalo.

The camp lay at the edge of Wonsan's southern industrial sprawl, near roads and factory chimneys which poked into the hazy air like fingers.

Sloan, by contrast, turned from the inner harbor to the open sea and industrial sprawl along the city's waterfront.

Once past the coastal marshes and industrial sprawl around Cádiz, you emerge into an elegant, civilized port city of largely 18th- and 19th-century construction.

Vsevolozhsk, a town of 40,000, does have an industrial sprawl that includes a cement plant and a farm equipment maker.