WASTELAND

[noun] - an empty area of land in or near a city which is not cultivated or built on, or used in any wayThe car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city. [U]A survey in 1976 suggested that there were then 104 670 hectares of urban wasteland in Great Britain. [U]The wastelands are awaiting transformation into neat farms or parks. [C] Wasteland can be used to refer to a place, time or situation which lacks anything positive or productive.In his later work, Britain's inner cities are depicted as a cultural wasteland.Their relationship had become an emotional wasteland.This new surge of interest in religion is perhaps a reaction to the the spiritual wasteland of the 1980s.