Is this post racially insensitive?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Inner City in the sense of urban geography does not refer to the city centre but to a ring - the classical shape, though less common than it used to be - of deprived neighbourhoods around the city centre. It replaced (and is arguably a euphemism for) the older term 'slum'. There isn't really an English term for deprived suburb, but there is a French one and we might as well use it: banlieue.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, but the term emerged as a replacement for 'slum', which was my point really. Of course in Australia (where they do cities differently) 'inner city' has very different connotations.

Most American big city downtowns (as we call them, not sure if that term is used in the UK)

City centre. Colloquially the usual term is 'town' or 'the city'.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Although, and let us be absolutely honest here, a knotted handkerchief on your head is cooler than Fresno.