slumburb

English

Etymology

Blend of slum +‎ suburb

Noun

slumburb (plural slumburbs)

1. 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.