The phrase "concrete desert" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used as a descriptive phrase to refer to a heavily urbanized or industrialized area with little natural greenery or open spaces. Example: The city center used to be a thriving neighborhood with parks and gardens, but now it's just a concrete desert with towering buildings and congested streets.
Goggle-eyed and clenched, trapped in an anonymous concrete desert where transport is scarce and utilities unreliable, Tommy finds solace in a warmhearted hospice nurse (Wunmi Mosaku) and therapy to modify his flinching body language.
By occupying storefronts, houses, swap meets, shopping centers, beauty parlors and parking lots, Zumba is giving people a chance to become active in what Gonzalez calls "the concrete desert".
The area outside the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia is typically a concrete desert on a weekday evening, home to a few pigeons and the odd security guard.
This is augmented by the policy of local and central government to round up the most vulnerable, stick them into concrete deserts and forget about them.
In natural areas it can strangle out native species and should be controlled, but in concrete deserts surely we should praise its tenacity and the rich nectars it provides to urban insects.
In natural areas, it can strangle native species and should be controlled, but in concrete deserts we should praise buddleia's tenacity and welcome the rich nectar it lays on for urban insects.
All of this is surely a good idea, at some level: trying to repair some of the damage our lifestyle has done to the planet by integrating nature into what have been, especially in the modern era, wasteful, harsh, alienating, concrete urban deserts.
The El Nino Pacific-warming phenomenon of 1998 killed 98% of the reef around Vabbinfaru, so the scientists there have been able to compare the growth rates for corals grafted on to concrete structures on "desert" patches of seafloor, and those stuck on to the Lotus.
To grow from pouring concrete in the desert of Las Vegas, NV into one of our city's most respected custom homebuilders, he is the epitome of what an entrepreneur should be.
The sandstone-colored concrete blends with the desert that stretches behind the building toward the mountains.
With its lush gardens and beautiful architecture, it is an oasis in a desert of concrete – the lungs of Beirut.
