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Urban prairie is a recently-coined term to describe what is occurring to the core areas of some North American cities as the process of urban sprawl takes hold. When people abandon a city's central core to relocate to the suburbs, large swaths of buildings are torn down or neglected due to a shrinking tax base and increased crime. Such areas become nothing more than fields of over-grown vegetation.
This, in turn, provides habitat for wild life, whose populations start to increase. The "urban prairie" phenomenon is occurring most conspicuously in Rust Belt cities such as Detroit, Michigan, and Buffalo, New York, in the United States.
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