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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.
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 ...
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 ...
A teahouse in the Nanjing Presidential Palace garden, China. This is a list of teahouses.A teahouse is an establishment which primarily serves tea and other light refreshments.
Inside of a slum house, from Jacob Riis photo collection of New York City (ca 1890). Part of Charles Booth's poverty map showing the Old Nichol, a slum in the East End of London. Published 1889 in Life and Labour of the People in London. The red areas are "middle class, well-to-do", light blue areas are "poor, 18s to 21s a week for a moderate ...
Ohio State’s offense is averaging 5.3 yards per carry this season and over seven yards a play. The Buckeyes have been powered by a run game that features both TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon ...
A housing crisis developed in the 1950s and 1960s when a large number of refugees left mainland China and moved to Hong Kong, creating a large, unmet demand for affordable housing options and squatting in shanty towns or rooftop slums. [1] The census of 1971 reported 27,000 people living in rooftop dwellings. [2]
"Teacup Chihuahuas often face life-threatening conditions like hydrocephalus (water on the brain)." A teacup Chi can carry a pricetag as big as his body is small, running as much as $5,000. Height ...