The depletion of mineral resources, the drying up of the oil fields, nuclear war, the destruction and contamination of the environment, food shortages, economic panic, computers, robots, overproduction, backlogged Inventories, trade friction, violence by the unemployed - these will all lead to uninhabited cities.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
I hear Prasutagus died a week since, though the news has come but slowly, and already a horde of Roman officials have arrived in Norfolk, and are proceeding to make Inventories of the king's possessions, and to bear themselves as insolently as if they were masters of all.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
Inventories record it in 1369 and 1476. In an inventory of the Bishop of Bayeux it is mentioned in 1563. About this time it was in ecclesiastical hands and used for decorating the nave of the Bayeux Cathedral.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee