Slum :  (noun)

1: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions [syn: slum area] (verb)

1: visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity

Augean stables, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, dump, ghetto, greenbelt, hole, hovel, inner city, midtown, muck, outskirts, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, red-light district, residential district, rookery, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid, skid road, skid row, slab, slums, stable, stew, sty, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement, tenement district, the slums, uptown, urban blight, warren,