Problems for humans living in cities include various forms of pollution and crime, especially in inner city and suburban slums.

The most visible sign of authority was in a violence-ridden suburban slum where military troops manned roadblocks and my police escort rode with his gun unholstered.

When is France going to treat the North Africans in its suburban slums decently?

Sociologists and planners declared it a suburban slum in the making.

These in turn gave way to suburban slums with narrow cobbled streets winding every which way like worms trailing through wood.

Mr. Plattner and his wife, Frances, credit the Republicans with keeping areas like theirs from becoming suburban slums, as some predicted in the 50's.

Stranded and homeless in the big city, he is rescued by a kind-hearted Muslim fisherman who takes him into his home in the suburban slums of Dharavi.

But there are also growing suburban slums and an unemployment rate of 20 percent.

They describe how blockbusting and panic selling turned Roosevelt from a working-class community into a virtual archetype of the so-called "inner ring" suburban slums.

But he has never seemed comfortable in the suburban slums.