Too many officials in troubled cities wrongly imagine that they can lead their city back to its former glories with some massive construction project.
I failed to understand why it's their city, not their cities.
I think their city should be their cities and its former glories their former glories.
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English doesn't handle these things well. You have to write around such pitfalls. Sometimes you can't. This writer rightly observed that each official has one city, but I agree it doesn't sound right although it is. The alternative is worse. By the way, it's "former glory", not countable glories. Sheesh. The Guardian again?
Too many officials in troubled cities wrongly imagine that they can lead their city back to its former glory with some massive construction project.