postindustrial
adjective
post·in·dus·tri·al
ˌpōst-in-ˈdə-strē-əl 
: occurring in, existing in, or being a period of social and economic development after the predominance of large-scale industry
postindustrial towns
Coastal hubs like New York and San Francisco have staked their futures on postindustrial technology, finance, and business services.—
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Birth rates, of course, follow long-term trends, and one explanation is the inexorable demographic consequences of becoming a postindustrial country: Russian society started to become modern—with people moving to cities, becoming more educated, and having fewer children—back in the 1960s.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
The south, which has long been far-right territory, went to Marine Le Pen, as did large swaths of the postindustrial northeast, a region that was once the breeding ground of the French Communist Party.
—Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
The United States will struggle in a postindustrial world when its lethal adversary, bent on its demise, is the dominant manufacturer.
—Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
In 2024, Mural will partner with the University of Applied Arts in Vienna to engage AI with postindustrial and speculative design, led by lecturer Anab Jain.
—Suhair Khan, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
The gesture like that by a Black immigrant family in the whitest state in the country is emblematic, Lewiston’s boosters say, of how a struggling postindustrial mill town has been revived in part by a recent influx of non-European immigrants.
—Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
New York, like other cities around the world, has spent much of the past generation recycling its grimy waterfront of factories and warehouses for a postindustrial age, and though the project still isn’t complete, the refinery acts as its capstone.
—Curbed, 27 Sep. 2023
Then, about 15 years ago, the Fed partnered with a host of institutions in midsized, postindustrial New England cities to figure out how to bring back economic vitality.
—Jeff Fuhrer, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
South of the city center, in his apartment in the postindustrial Morivione district, the designer Maximilian Marchesani serves me tea and pink cake from the nearby Bar Luce, designed in Formica and pastels by the director Wes Anderson.
—Kerry Olsen, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2023
Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
The south, which has long been far-right territory, went to Marine Le Pen, as did large swaths of the postindustrial northeast, a region that was once the breeding ground of the French Communist Party.
—Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
The United States will struggle in a postindustrial world when its lethal adversary, bent on its demise, is the dominant manufacturer.
—Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
In 2024, Mural will partner with the University of Applied Arts in Vienna to engage AI with postindustrial and speculative design, led by lecturer Anab Jain.
—Suhair Khan, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
The gesture like that by a Black immigrant family in the whitest state in the country is emblematic, Lewiston’s boosters say, of how a struggling postindustrial mill town has been revived in part by a recent influx of non-European immigrants.
—Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
New York, like other cities around the world, has spent much of the past generation recycling its grimy waterfront of factories and warehouses for a postindustrial age, and though the project still isn’t complete, the refinery acts as its capstone.
—Curbed, 27 Sep. 2023
Then, about 15 years ago, the Fed partnered with a host of institutions in midsized, postindustrial New England cities to figure out how to bring back economic vitality.
—Jeff Fuhrer, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
South of the city center, in his apartment in the postindustrial Morivione district, the designer Maximilian Marchesani serves me tea and pink cake from the nearby Bar Luce, designed in Formica and pastels by the director Wes Anderson.
—Kerry Olsen, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2023
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“Postindustrial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postindustrial. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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