Meanings of urban ghetto in English

It is a sad picture of life in an urban ghetto.

Nimoy recalled going to temple as a young boy in the " urban ghetto" of Boston's West End.

Finally, life in an urban ghetto, though lacking the humiliation of legal segregation, had brought another harsh reality into Afro-American life.

And I laugh at Switch, the spoken-word poet rapping about injustice in a monochrome urban ghetto he doesn't actually live in, because he's quite posh.

SCHOOLS in deprived urban ghettos are experiencing an explosion of violence, including the stabbing to death of a teenage boy by a classmate last week.