Cities with "West End Girls" syndrome (vs., shop)

[belmont22]

What are some cities that have a very prosperous side and a very downtrodden opposite side, like the city described in the Pet Shop Boys song?

Some examples I can think of:

Chicago - affluent North Side vs. depressed South Side
Vancouver - affluent West Side of downtown vs. depressed Downtown Eastside
Los Angeles - affluent hill areas vs. South Central

[Rozenn]

Paris is affluent in the west and poor in the northeast.

[Trimac20]

Most large American cities. Both they got nothing like some cities in Asia like Mumbai or Manila.

[Fabio SBA]

Buenos Aires is poor in the south and affluent in the north.
Rio de Janeiro is poor in the north and affluent in the south.
Paris is affluent in the west and "poor" in the northeast (not real poverty)
London, according to what I heard about, gets poorer while we advance eastwards.
Vienna and Milan are examples of large cities without such division.

[roe5745]

Glasgow's west end is very affluent, but poverty is not just found in the east end, there are poor areas in the north, south and east.

[BigSwede]

What is the West end girls syndrome?

[easthome]

I believe that particular song is about London, so London!?

[Trimac20]

I find it funny that while Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl' was probably talking to a Park Avenue socialite, The Velvet Underground's 'I'm Waiting For My Man' uses Uptown ('what you doin' uptown') to refer to Harlem. There's no official uptown in NYC, unlike downtown, but I guess either to apply.

[DginnWonder]

Wait..Isn't, like, EVERY major city like that though? I mean, most cities in Africa, Asia, and the Americas are "new" (only in the past century have these cities seen such a large boom in population), and even in cities in Europe, there is a divide. It's kind of what makes a city a city. You need a poor underclass to prop up those with such fabulous wealth.

I really can't think of any major World City that doesn't have this 'syndrome.'


...Tokyo? Sydney? Vancouver? I have no idea...