urban decay
Metropolitan structural decline
Urban decay is the deterioration of a city or neighborhood through population loss, economic decline, and physical neglect.
Buildings fall into disrepair, businesses close, infrastructure crumbles.
The term often appears in discussions of postindustrial cities: Urban decay hollowed out Detroit's downtown.
Also called urban blight.
- slumImpoverished urban district
- inner cityDense central metropolitan zone
- underclassLowest socioeconomic group
- povertySevere lack of resources
- blightPlant disease causing decay
boarded up · favela · decline · vacant lot · project · deindustrialization · blockbusting · economic disparity · crack epidemic · crime rate · environmental racism · redlining · ghettoization · dilapidation · white flight · unemployment · squalor · racial segregation
- city lifecity, traffic noise, downtown, metropolis, city life
- cityscapesskyline, city skyline, skylines, skyscraper, high-rise
- eyesoreseyesore, blight, garbage, trash, junk
- regional issueswater scarcity, water shortage, crime rates, traffic congestion, housing crisis
- Rust BeltDetroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Gary, Youngstown
- societal decaydecline, degradation, degeneration, deterioration, disintegration
urban decayurban renewal
Revitalizing decayed city areas
urban revitalization · gentrification · redevelopment · adaptive reuse · economic boom
decay, urban, suburb, decayed, decaying, suburban, urbane, decays, suburbia