slumburb
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A poor municipality on the outskirts of a city, often the result of gentrification…
A poor municipality on the outskirts of a city, often the result of gentrification driving the urban poor to move far from the city center.
- And in New Jersey today, there is still no official word on the shooting that occurred in South Orange, a slumburb of Essex.
- There is a likelihood that there will be an explosion of "slumburbs," as cities will be unable to provide basic services, much less information-related services.
- Theirs is not a complete vision by any means, with the multiple ethnicities and races of actual suburbs conspicuously absent, but it does suggest that we challenge rather than accept slumburb imagery.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA