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Inner city

noun

The older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city.

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"Inner city" Quotes from Famous Books

... down and write a long report to his Majesty concerning a lengthy and fruitless negotiation which I had today with Count Buol, and concerning an audience with the Archduchess Empress-Dowager. But I have just taken a promenade on the high ramparts all round the inner city, and from them seen a charming sunset behind the Leopoldsberg, and now I am much more inclined to think of you than of business. I stood for a long time on the red Thor Tower, which commands a view of the Jaegerzeil and of our old-time domicile, the Lamb, with the cafe ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... observation, whether one's judgment was one thing or its opposite, favorable or unfavorable. If one chose the Church Square, surrounded by houses, among which was our apothecary's shop, one could find little of good to say, although the chief street ran past there. But if one forsook the inner city and went down to the "River," as the Swine was regularly called, his hitherto unfavorable opinion was converted into its opposite. Here ran along the river, for nearly a mile, the "Bulwark," as poetic a riverside street as one could imagine. The ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

Words linked to "Inner city" : metropolis, city, eye, centre, heart, center, urban center, middle