Usage of "urban rot" | TermGallery

Condition where part of a city or town becomes old or dirty or ruined, because businesses and wealthy families have moved away from it.

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Examples for "urban blight"

Examples for "urban blight"

Technology hadn't erased urban blight, it had been used to create it! 
 Time After Time 

Upscale apartment blocks and opulent mansions abut hillside slums and urban blight. 
 Reuters 

Many bridges are the archetype of urban blight, essential yet uninspired. 
 BBC 

Baltimore should provide a fertile testing ground for the study of urban blight. 
 Wired 

An historic new approach-UrbanRenewal-nowreplaces piecemeal thrusts at slum pockets and urban blight. 
 State of the Union Addresses 

Both films involve skinheads, extreme violence and shocking depictions of urban decay. 
 The Guardian 

With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay. 
 The other wes moore: one name, two fates 

A buffer of urban decay disfigures this ancient city. 
 The Irish Times 

As a result, urban decay in this area even exceeds that seen in the slums of Hillbrow. 
 The South African 

But some Cubans say the government has only itself to blame for the urban decay of Havana. 
 Reuters 

Meanings of urban rot in English