Inner city
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The term inner city has been used, especially in the United States, as a
History
The term "inner city" first achieved consistent usage through the writings of
Urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States[3]) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal is the clearing out of blighted areas in inner cities to create opportunities for higher class housing, businesses, and more.
In Canada, in the 1970s, the government introduced Neighbourhood Improvement Programs to deal with urban decay, especially in inner cities.[4] Also, some inner-city areas in various places have undergone the socioeconomic process of gentrification, especially since the 1990s.[5]
See also
- Bid rent theory
- Black flight and white flight
- Concentric zone model
- Ghetto
- Industrial deconcentration
- Skid row
- Slum
- Suburban colonization
- Urban sprawl
- Urban structure
- The projects
References
- ^ "BBC - Higher Bitesize Geography - Urban : Revision, Page4". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ^ Bench Ansfield, "Unsettling 'Inner City': Liberal Protestantism and the Postwar Origins of a Keyword in Urban Studies" Antipode (2018)
- ^ "HUD Revitalization Areas". Archived from the original on 15 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ^ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144470328.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "State of Metropolitan America, Part II, "Race and Ethnicity"" (PDF). brookings.edu. p. 62. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 May 2010. Retrieved 7 April 2018. (Brookings Institution) and its analysis in Gurwitt, Rob (July 2008). "Atlanta and the Urban Future". Governing. Retrieved April 5, 2010. — see example in Demographics of Atlanta: Race and ethnicity