English Literature A-Level
Urban transformation and decay
What Urban transformation and decay means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The rapid, often destructive, modernisation of the urban landscape, contrasted with the decaying, hidden realities of the city's most vulnerable inhabitants.
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