invisible inner city
Title of a special report by Mary Bishop with S.D. Harrington. An area that rings the urban renewal area, and their decline represents the playing out of contagious housing destruction, a predictable sequel to the clear cutting of neighborhoods. The problems of abandonment and disinvestment were causing the rapid decline in the housing stock. Fire consumed many of the decrepit buildings, and the population of these troubled areas fell. The area of the invisible inner city overlaps with the inner section of African American settlement – the second ghetto. (Fullilove, 2004, 93)