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"
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Technology hadn't erased urban blight, it had been used to create it!
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Upscale apartment blocks and opulent mansions abut hillside slums and urban blight.
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Many bridges are the archetype of urban blight, essential yet uninspired.
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Baltimore should provide a fertile testing ground for the study of urban blight.
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An historic new approach-UrbanRenewal-nowreplaces piecemeal thrusts at slum pockets and urban blight.
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Both films involve skinheads, extreme violence and shocking depictions of urban decay.
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With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay.
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A buffer of urban decay disfigures this ancient city.
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As a result, urban decay in this area even exceeds that seen in the slums of Hillbrow.
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But some Cubans say the government has only itself to blame for the urban decay of Havana.