slumburb
English
Etymology
Blend of slum + suburb
Noun
slumburb (plural slumburbs)
- 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.
- 1995, J. R. Dunn, This Side of Judgment, →ISBN:
- And in New Jersey today, there is still no official word on the shooting that occurred in South Orange, a slumburb of Essex.
- 2000, Patrick J. DeSouza, Economic Strategy and National Security: A Next Generation Approach:
- 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.
- 2016, Carl Abbott, Imagining Urban Futures, →ISBN:
- 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.
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