Anyone travelling regularly through urban and suburban England might be struck, like me, with one contrasting and, sometimes, haunting image. While our city centres have been transformed beyond recognition – give or take the aberration of countless new blocks of bland, Shanghai-style flats, many of them empty – suburbia beyond is declining and, in some cases, decaying. That great wedge of housing in between, labelled the outer-city, is often in a much more shocking state.
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