Skid Row Area
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A Skid Row Area is an urban impoverished area whose poor inhabitants are disreputable or forgotten by society.
- Example(s):
- See: Red-Light District, Marginalized, Vagrancy (People), Pioneer Square, Seattle, Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon, Tenderloin, San Francisco.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row Retrieved:2017-12-15.
- A skid row or skid road is an impoverished area, typically urban, whose inhabitants are people "on the skids;" this specifically refers to the poor, the homeless, or others either considered disreputable or forgotten by society. A skid row may be anything from an impoverished urban district to a red-light district to a gathering area for the homeless. In general skid row areas are inhabited or frequented by individuals marginalized by poverty or through drug addiction. Urban areas considered skid rows are marked by high vagrancy, and they often feature cheap taverns, dilapidated buildings, and drug dens as well as other features of urban blight. Used figuratively, it may indicate the state of a poor person's life. The term skid road originally referred to the path along which timber workers skidded logs. Its current sense appears to have originated in the Pacific Northwest. Areas identified by this name include Pioneer Square in Seattle; Old Town Chinatown in Portland, Oregon; Downtown Eastside in Vancouver; Skid Row in Los Angeles; the Tenderloin District of San Francisco; and the Bowery of lower Manhattan.