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This strategy ignores several dimensions of a slum life. The strategy sees slum as merely a place where the poor lives. In reality, slums are often integrated with every aspect of a slum resident's life, including sources of employment, distance from work, and social life. [247] Slum relocation that displaces the poor from opportunities to earn ...
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 ...
The term, which means slum or ghetto, was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had lived under the favela trees in Bahia and had nowhere to live following the Canudos War. Some of the last settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighborhoods).
B eneath a gloomy white sky, more than 100 armed police poured into the slum of Badia East in the teeming megacity of Lagos, Nigeria. As they advanced, they cracked their batons on the unpaved streets and against the ramshackle walls of the shanties. “If you love your life, move out!” the officers shouted.
In the Ghetto" (originally titled "The Vicious Circle"), a 1969 song about birth and life in slum areas, written by Mac Davis and made famous by Elvis Presley "The Ghetto" (1970), soul song by Donny Hathaway "Ghetto Life "(1981), funk song by Rick James "The Ghetto" (1990), hip-hop song written by Too Short "Ghetto" (2001), a song by P.O.D ...
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes. They ...
As of 2005, there were 346 shanty towns in Beijing, housing 1.5 million people. [26] Author Robert Neuwirth wrote that around six million people, half the population of Istanbul lived in gecekondu areas. [27] In Hong Kong, the Kowloon Walled City housed up to 50,000 people, [28] with rooftop slums currently providing some additional housing.
The slum residents are from all over India, people who migrated from rural regions of many different states. [30] About 29% of the population of Dharavi is Muslim. [31] [32] The Christian population is estimated to be about 6%, [33] while the rest are predominantly Hindus with some Buddhists and other minority religions. The slum has numerous ...