See also: innercity and inner city

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inner-city (comparative more inner-city, superlative most inner-city)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.
    • 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
      [...] 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.