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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 ...
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 ...
It is a region with a distinct culture, an area of crowded, cheap rooming houses where day laborers and jouhatsu live. [1] San'ya dates to the Edo period. Lower caste workers, butchers, tanners, leatherworkers, and the like, were forced to live in this undesirable region by the predominantly Buddhist authorities.
Nearly all of the estimated 3.4 million people who have been physically or economically displaced by World Bank-backed projects between 2004 and 2013 live in Africa or one of three Asian countries: Vietnam, China and India. Read about the data and our methodology here.
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 ...
Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday.. The police officers and firefighter were ...
Teacup is an American horror television series created by Ian McCulloch and inspired by the novel Stinger by Robert R. McCammon. The first season premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2024, and premiered on Peacock on October 10, 2024.
Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M the Manga and its Live Action TV series Fire Boys (Megumi no Daigo) was based within the Tokyo Fire Department. Most of the cast act as Fire Department personnel. 252: Seizonsha Ari a Disaster film; has Tokyo Fire Department personnel as main characters in the film. They are rescuing people during the aftermath.