Like wisps of smoke, memories of his youth in the concrete jungle drifted through his mind.
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Harlow, unlike many other new towns, is not aconcretejungle.
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Smith's name is usually spoken in negative terms regarding the destruction of historic and aesthetically pleasing buildings which were replaced with aconcretejungle.
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If we are not careful we shall become aconcretejungle, with cattle standing on concrete, eating imported food.
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We all know of whole areas of towns where old houses have been replaced by aconcretejungle, with all the attendant social problems.
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We cannot replace agricultural ground, but we can replace thisconcretejungle.
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It is now covered by aconcretejungle, my own house included.
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Those cities have natural amenities and resources, whereas urban areas—massive areas ofconcretejungle—have very little or nothing at all.
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I genuinely hope that she is misrepresenting him, and that aconcretejungleis not his vision of the future.
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That is the kind of growth we are having in the south-west, and theconcretejungleis eating into the countryside.
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Much of the land which will be taken and turned intoconcretejunglewill be good farming land.
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Aconcretejunglewas developed, with so-called slums being replaced by far worse ones, instead of dwellings being systematically restored.
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It represents a breath of fresh air amidst theconcretejungleof anonymous urban life and an opportunity to out price the supermarkets.
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Large areas of the country are covered in what might be called a reinforcedconcretejungle.
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We do not want it to be turned into aconcretejungle.
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They are now moving out of the cardboard cities and into theconcretejunglebecause winter is coming.
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