The "gut issue" of the urban crisis, they said, was to provide more opportunities for the poor.

The urban crisis or the inner city problem conflates a number of quite different economic, political and social issues.

Let's face it, America is going to have to face the urban crisis as a nation, and that means all of us.

This is both an urban and cultural crisis.

But increasingly, lawmakers sense that there is an urban crisis that they cannot ignore.

"the movie is an attempt to show urban crisis in extremis"

Yet America's "urban crisis" is rooted in causes far deeper than the war on poverty.

New York's brush with bankruptcy had already passed, but the larger sense of an urban crisis was everywhere.

But renewed urban combat is hardly the only global urban crisis.

She found herself caught up in urban crisis.