Inner-city

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.

    "[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain."

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"Silver blades forged with high-tensile carbon steel flash as they slice through cardinal-red fillets of salmon on a restaurant counter in inner-city Johannesburg."

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