Slumburb

Quick meaning: Slumburb is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• slumburbs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include penturbia, suburb, suburbs, exurbia, outlands, outskirts.

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