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[ noun ] the central part of a city
Synonyms Used in print (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)Meanwhile , the automobile and its friend the truck have cost the central_city some of its industrial dominance . This movement of industry away from the central_cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe . What hurts most is the damage the automobile has done to central-city retailing , especially in those cities where public_transit is feeble . Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central_city would be likely to destroy this preference - and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change , gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians , is actually upon us . |
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