The inner city is the central area of a major city or metropolis. In the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, the term is often applied to the poorer parts of the city centre and is sometimes used as a euphemism with the connotation of being an area, perhaps a ghetto or slum, where residents are less educated and more impoverished and where there's more crime. Sociologists in these countries sometimes turn this euphemism into a formal designation, applying the term "inner city" to… (More on Inner-city)