enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of slums - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_slums

    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 ...

  3. American ghettos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Ghettos

    Protest sign at a housing project in Detroit, 1942. Ghettos in the United States are typically urban neighborhoods perceived as being high in crime and poverty. The origins of these areas are specific to the United States and its laws, which created ghettos through both legislation and private efforts to segregate America for political, economic, social, and ideological reasons: de jure [1 ...

  4. Slum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum

    A slum is a highly populated urban residential area ... Part of Charles Booth's poverty map showing ... Five Points was not the only slum in America. [39 ...

  5. List of sundown towns in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sundown_towns_in...

    A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.

  6. Slum clearance in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum_clearance_in_the...

    Slum clearance in the United States has been used as an urban renewal strategy to regenerate derelict or run-down districts, often to be replaced with alternative developments or new housing. Early calls were made during the 19th century, although mass slum clearance did not occur until after World War II with the introduction of the Housing ...

  7. Five Points, Manhattan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan

    Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.

  8. List of tent cities in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tent_cities_in_the...

    San Jose, California: The Jungle was at its time one of the largest homeless encampments in the US before the spike in the homeless tent usage throughout North America in the late 2010s. In 2013, it had 175 people. [ 18 ]

  9. Category:Slums in North America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Category:Slums_in_North_America

    Former shantytowns and slums in Atlanta (12 P) Pages in category "Slums in North America" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.