Narrative about city almost surrounded by concrete (7)
I believe the answer is:
recital
'narrative' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'city almost surrounded by concrete' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
'surrounded by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'concrete' becomes 'real' (associated in meaning).
'city' with its final letter removed is 'cit'.
'cit' placed into 'real' is 'RECITAL'.
'about' is the link.
(Other definitions for recital that I've seen before include "statement of facts" , "Musician's performance" , "17 performance, for example" , "Article found in performance" , "Public musical performance" .)