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English
Etymology
From slum + -ification.
Noun
slummification (uncountable)
- The process of an area or neighborhood becoming a slum.
1928 August, R. B. Suthers, “The Disappearance of Rural England”, in The Labour Magazine, volume 7, number 4, London: Trades Union Congress; Labour Party, page 172:There is an amusing side to this terrible threat to the countryside. So long as the uglification and slummification of England was confined to the industrial centres, few of the really best people troubled themselves.
1982, Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim, Headbirths, or, The Germans Are Dying Out, New York, N.Y: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 73; translation of Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus, Darmstadt, Neuwied: Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1980:“In its place, I ordain, an equivalent graduated tax will be levied for the benefit of the Third World countries. But not to build ungainly factories with. Certainly not! Priority will be given to agricultural development projects that will stop the flight from the land and the slummification of the cities.”
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Translations
the process of a neighborhood becoming a slum