Citations:municide

Noun: "the demise of a city through economic collapse or disincorporation"

 * 1986 — "No To A City Income Tax", Chicago Tribune, 12 May 1986:
 * If he succeeds, it will be only because a lot of legislators want to see if Chicago really is foolish enough to commit municide, or whatever it's called when a city kills itself economically.
 * 2003 — Will Swaim, "Municide", OC Weekly, 18 December 2003:
 * But disincorporation is such an ugly word. Let's call it "municide."
 * 2010 — Ben Schott, "Municide", The New York Times, 23 November 2010:
 * Reporting in The Examiner that Hamtramck, Michigan, is seeking bankruptcy, Kenneth Schortgen Jr highlighted the term municide:
 * Municide is a term coined by John Galt Fla, and describes the death of cities through economic and political destruction.