What is "slum area"

Usage examples of "slum area".

Embaba is a new slum area of northwestern Cairo, built by squatters on agricultural land.

In any case it seemed probable that some wealthy family had held on to it for several generations, always hoping that the value of its site would increase, whereas it had gone down and down as the district in which it lay had gradually deteriorated into a slum area.

Municipal cleanups were limited to once a month, since it was felt that a slum area should have a certain noisome cachet to it.

Negroes & refuse admittance to all others) & to isolate Negro housing in the slum area of West Las Vegas.

My mind made up, I drove the Olds to the outskirts of a slum area, left it there, and tried to flag down a cab.

The lobby served as a repository for all the old, degenerating losers in the Arco slum area.

If Marshall had a hideout in this city, then it would be here in the slum area where a person could disappear more easily.

The destruction of the most hideous slum area the country had ever known, and the opening of Victorian eyes.

Halfway through a slum area, I could hear a motorcycle revving its engine, but couldn't see if it was Rey.

Yes, the jump had worked, and then the city, and that slum area, and yes, Coleridge!

Even in this vanishing slum area, the dustbins were always well stocked with edible refuse, so he certainly wouldn't starve.

They knew that nobody would follow them to such a dangerous, unstable slum area as this.

There were scenes of a Mid-western city slum area, where Dilman had been born over fifty years ago, and still photographs of an unattractive infant in absurd lacy dresses, and then dull shots of school buildings, and Sally Watson’.

He nodded toward the slum area of shacks of corrugated tin, powder cans, and Kane thought he saw pieces of the crates that yesterday had contained the baseball equipment.