Slurb, n. [Slang derived from English [slum] + [suburb]]

A more or less derogatory term for a poorly planned and managed suburban area.

The new city's construction has been so rapid and so unforeseen that we lack even a commonly-accepted name for what we have created. Or, rather, we have too many names: [spread city], [urban village], [megalopolis], [sprawl], [slurb], the ['burbs].

- Bernd Friedmann, http://www.freibank.com/flash/freibank/forfilms3.html

These things are rather common around my hometown of [Stockholm]; a result of the socialist housing reform [miljonprogrammet], the million program, in the 1960s and '70s. Some of these concrete suburbs have since become semi-[ghetto]ized areas with a low level of education, a high rate of violent crimes and an disproportionate percentage of immigrants, contributing to the segregation. I live in one of Stockholm's less shabby slurbs, but my bedroom view is still a concrete jungle.

slurb (place)