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“Slurb” includes flat, bold-colored figures in Asian-style boats paddling past half-submerged cars, trailers, bridges and tires.

Opposite this video is “Slurb,” an animation from 2009 commissioned by the city of Tampa that conflates the words “slum” and “suburb” in its title.

Today, with 50% of the population crammed into the corridor, it is a smog-covered slurb.

Not only is prime farm land taken out of production, but it is also developed in an inefficient way; the term "slurb" was coined in California to describe sleazy, sprawling subdivisions.

Nonetheless, a well-planned new town seems infinitely preferable to the typical American "slurb," with its dreary tracts, its jumbled community facilities and its tangle of roadways.