However, too often, inner cities are viewed as places of blight, poverty, and social ills.
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"There are several pockets of blight around the city, and as a result, absentee property owners have responded by boarding up their properties, " said Mark Fogelman of Fogelman Management Group, a closely held property firm with 5, 000 units in Memphis.
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Mr Bush's own father may have been a victim of statistical blight.
As part of the Recovery Act, you cleaned up contaminated sites across the country, which helped to rid neighborhoods of environmental blight while putting Americans back to work.
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But hardly any details have been decided, particularly the tricky ones of how this will ease South Korea's blight of overcapacity in practically every industry, from shipbuilding to semiconductors.
"Stopping young people taking up this deadly addiction in the first place will not only reduce the number of lung cancer cases in the future but a range of other illnesses that continue to blight the lives of so many people, " she added.
How can this blight of worklessness be squared with Britain's much-trumpeted low rate of unemployment?
The Scottish government argued the legislation would help rejuvenate Scotland's high streets and reduce the blight of empty properties.
The line came to encapsulate the borough's urban blight of the time.
Ms Cunningham said the legislation would remove doubt over croft boundaries and address the blight of absenteeism, neglect and misuse of crofts.
Overall crime, according to the British Crime Survey, down by 4 million incidents a year, with the blight of burglary down to its lowest level for over 20 years.
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So, although Asia mostly has been spared the blight of war for nearly a generation, it is on the front lines of other threats to prosperity and the pursuit of happiness.
They fear there will be an overconsumption of resources that will blight the planet.
They fear there will be an over-consumption of resources that will blight the planet.
Yet for all Europe's excoriations of Gitmo as a blight on America, no one jumped at this easy chance to reduce the prison population.
You know, he understands that it is the blight on - of America's image overseas.
They are intended to help fill the large gaps in meteorological knowledge that exist over the world's oceans, and which blight the work of weathermen.
Labour rejected criticisms of the bill, arguing that it was "sensible" and "proportionate" in allowing councils to deal with "very real concerns" that blight large numbers of their constituents.
And it was a reminder that in Washington we should not permit people with political motives to blight the careers of civil servants and blame them for failures of management and policy at the top.
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The schoolboys he taught before and after the second world war, and the war itself, cast a blight on his view of humanity.
Even more expensive is wood from chestnut, a once ubiquitous species that ceased to be a source of timber not long after chestnut blight arrived on this continent around 1890.
Ponting said the referral of disputed catches to inadequate technology was a "blight on the game".
Netbooks were terrible machines, a technological blight that threatened to become the future of computing.
Some of the homes they renovate are being donated to Blight Busters, which then place families in them.
As for poverty, contemporary India's worst blight, education will spread the benefits of economic growth to the masses.
It will fall to Barack Obama's administration to rectify this serious blight on its predecessor's record of keeping us safe.
Many of them flow from the chest pains that suddenly blight Harry's planned tryst with Marin at her mother's Long Island beach house, from Erica's stunned reluctance to nurse him, and from his outlandish shock, more appropriate to an encounter with the Medusa, when he stumbles into Erica's bedroom and sees her naked.
Some began to wonder if the presence of Wi-Fi access points was contributing to the blight.
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