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