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Somehow I'm reminded of the term "slurb", but instead of its negative connotation I'm thinking "slow-urban", a slum of hope attracting urbanites, an inexpensive property characterized by the lack of urban infrastructure but rich on more important aspects of life.
Global Culture 2009
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Somehow I'm reminded of the term "slurb", but instead of its negative connotation I'm thinking "slow-urban", a slum of hope attracting urbanites, an inexpensive property characterized by the lack of urban infrastructure but rich on more important aspects of life.
Global Culture 2009
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Somehow I'm reminded of the term "slurb", but instead of its negative connotation I'm thinking "slow-urban", a slum of hope attracting urbanites, an inexpensive property characterized by the lack of urban infrastructure but rich on more important aspects of life.
Global Culture 2009
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The word exurb dates from at least the 1950s; newer words on the model of "exurb" include "boomburb" (a rapidly growing, sprawling city of 100,000 or more on the edge of a major metropolitan area) and "slurb" (an area of unplanned suburban sprawl).
Week in Words Erin McKean 2011
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Laos, from what has been shown so far, looks an awful lot like Southern California underneath the slurb, I mean - the real stuff.
Food and Drink 2009
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I realized just now that I'd seen the TV slurb before that I had on while I was finishing a new book outline.
WTF?? 2009
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NYC is not some Johnny come lately Sun Belt slurb.
Central Park: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? « Climate Audit 2007
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The methodology involved in getting something like slurb to become popular is innovation.
Splurb Surfaces The Most Popular Links Across Social Media Sites Leena Rao 2005
ry commented on the word slurb
An ill-planned or unplanned suburban area, with tracts of undifferentiated, often poorly-constructed houses.
1960s? "slum" + "suburb"
December 12, 2012
bilby commented on the word slurb
projects?
December 12, 2012
ry commented on the word slurb
well in the U.S. at least, that almost always refers to a housing project; usually these do not appear in suburban areas. Perhaps slurbs are the free-market version of the projects.
December 13, 2012
ry commented on the word slurb
furthermore: both the projects and the slurbs could be described as ghetto (adj.); however, while projects are commonly considered to be part of "the ghetto," only a very sordid slurb would be so classed.
December 13, 2012
bilby commented on the word slurb
I think Australians would recognise slurbs - heaven knows most of the populated areas of the nation are such - but we don't have a word for them. Unrecognisable in their ubiquitousness. Can't see the wood for the trees. Too used to mediocrity in suburban design, given up pointing it out. Too depressingly familiar to contemplate. etc.
December 13, 2012