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This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
A slum dwelling in Borgergade in central Copenhagen Denmark, about 1940. The Danish government passed The Slum Clearance Act in 1939, demolished many slums including Borgergade, replacing it with modern buildings by the early 1950s. [238] [239] Some city and state officials have simply sought to remove slums.
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Some slums may have been viable for inexpensively cleaning up through use of stricter safety and sanitation enforcement. In the mid 20th century, a housing court was established in Baltimore with the power to impose penalties for violations of agreed codes of practice, which in turn helped to regenerate around 16,000 slum properties. [1]
Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles [1] officially known as Central City East. [ 2 ] Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States , estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [ 3 ]
In 1990 a jury convicted a landlord of 23 counts of having slum conditions at a building he owned at 737 South Westlake Avenue in Los Angeles. Devanand Sharma failed to provide tenants with heat, did not repair broken windows, fire doors and smoke detectors , and kept walls, ceilings and plumbing in a deteriorated condition. [ 34 ]
Dharavi, Slum for Sale (2009) by Lutz Konermann and Rob Appleby is a German documentary. [54] In a programme aired in the United Kingdom in January 2010, Kevin McCloud and Channel 4 aired a two-part series titled Slumming It [ 55 ] which centered around Dharavi and its inhabitants.
He wrote historiographical essays and occasional case studies, especially on the Victorian slum. [8] His joint essay with Reeder Slums and Suburbs postulated a relationship at the level of flows of capital between the appearance, often rapid, of central urban slums, and the development of the peripheral suburbs of a city. [9] [10]