inner-city

Adjective

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.
   • Four years later, when the site of cultural panic had shifted from the threat of inner-city black youth to the moral decay and deviant behavior of relatively privileged, middle-class white youth, Kids was released.2005, George Lipsitz, Youthscapes, The Popular, the National, the Global, page 207
   • [...] 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.2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54