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  2. Shanty town - Wikipedia

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    Picture of a shanty town over "La Planicie" tunnel, created because of the rural flight to Caracas.. A shanty town, squatter area, squatter settlement, or squatter camp is a settlement of improvised buildings known as shanties or shacks, typically made of materials such as mud and wood, or from cheap building materials such as corrugated tin sheets.

  3. Category:Shanty towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Shanty towns in the United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.

  4. Hooverville - Wikipedia

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    This version of the shanty town was based in Central Park. Man's Castle, a 1933 film directed by Frank Borzage, focuses on a number of down-and-out characters living in a New York City Hooverville; the main characters (played by Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young) are lovers who cohabitate in a shanty outfitted with a skylight. [20]

  5. Lace curtain and shanty Irish - Wikipedia

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    Interior of a prosperous American household in 1905, with a lace curtain "The Patch", an Irish shanty town in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1850. Lace curtain Irish and shanty Irish are terms that were commonly used in the 19th and 20th centuries to categorize Irish people, particularly Irish Americans, by social class.

  6. Kennesaw, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area.Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under its 1887 charter.

  7. List of slums - Wikipedia

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    Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas. Vila Parisi, Cubatão; Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro. Although favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil, many of the more famous ones exist in Rio — a widely photographed city. Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro; Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro; Santa Marta ...

  8. Favela - Wikipedia

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    Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro (as well as in Brazil and the second largest slum and shanty town in Latin America). Although Favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil, many of the more famous ones exist in Rio. Rio's Santa Teresa neighborhood features favelas (right) contrasted with more affluent houses (left).

  9. Category:Shanty towns in North America - Wikipedia

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    Shanty towns in North America. ... Shanty towns in the United States (1 C, 12 P) This page was last edited on 20 January 2024, at 05:12 (UTC). ...