Inner-city

Quick meaning: Inner-city is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.

Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.

Example Sentences

Four years later, when the site of cultural panic had shifted from the threat of inner-city black youth to the moral decay and deviant behavior of relatively privileged, middle-class white youth, Kids was released.

[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.

Word Forms

• innercity

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include downtown, urban, centre, inner, innercity, central.

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