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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 ...
San'ya (山谷, San'ya) is an area in the Taitō and Arakawa wards of Tokyo, located south of the Namidabashi intersection, around the Yoshino-dori.A neighborhood named "San'ya" existed until 1966, but the area was renamed and split between several neighborhoods.
Kamagasaki (釜ヶ崎) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (あいりん地区) became the area's official name in May 1966.. It has the largest day laborer concentration in the country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius in this area, part of which has been in slum-like conditions until as recently as 2012, containing run ...
Club Asia, a live house in Tokyo Stage of a live house in Tokyo. A live house (ライブハウス, raibu hausu) is a Japanese live music club – a music venue featuring live music. The term is a Japanese coinage and is mainly used in East Asia. It most frequently refers to smaller venues, which may double as bars, especially featuring rock ...
The Salvation Army Waiʻoli Tea Room in Honolulu, Hawaii, is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Argo Tea, Chicago chain; Gryphon, Savannah, Georgia; Dushanbe Tea House; Lollicup Coffee & Tea, chain specialising in bubble tea; Salvation Army Waiʻoli Tea Room, Hawai'i; Shoseian Teahouse, California; Tavalon Tea, New York ...
From January 2008 to April 2011, if you bought shares in companies when W. Ann Reynolds joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 31.8 percent return on your investment, compared to a -8.9 percent return from the S&P 500.
There weren’t any surprises in the first set of rankings for the 12-team College Football Playoff. Oregon was the No. 1 team ahead of Ohio State, Georgia and Miami. But the Buckeyes slot in at ...
Rooftop slum (Chinese: 天台屋) or penthouse slum generally refers to illegal housing on the rooftops of apartment buildings. In Hong Kong, some people are unable to afford traditional apartments and are forced to wait years for affordable public housing. They therefore live in squatted shacks on top of buildings. According to the Hong Kong ...