Every corner she turned offered some fresh material for her thesis: 'Graffiti: the semiotics of urban despair'.

Whenever the media of New York needed to find some example of urban despair, they traveled to Newark.

The movie is a slight but sweet-natured commentary on urban despair.

If New York has a twin city in the language of urban despair, it is Calcutta.

Part surreal song of nature, part muffled cry of urban despair, Mushrooms hovers like a dream.

Hartford, which after the Civil War was the richest city in America, and remains associated more with insurance industry jobs than urban despair, still awaits its comeback.

Urban corruption and urban despair seem out of place in this picture postcard village with the snow cone mountain at the top of Main Street.

He rose above a debate on enterprise zones - the market approach to urban despair - to talk about love and community.

Drive will show them just as much urban despair.

The most popular methods are, of course, the platform lean and the long tunnel stare, timeless images of urban despair.