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But a flush loo is no option in slums where rain is the only form of flushing.

Throughout the novel, Dickens enlarges on this theme, describing slums so decrepit that whole rows of houses are on the point of ruin.

Charlie Chaplin, the world famous actor , was born in London in 1889 and grew up in the slums of London.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

These, the bank thinks, are the real problems of urbanisation, not the multiplication of slums or congestion.

The MIT researchers found that as many as one-third more businesses had opened in slums which had a microcredit branch.

Public housing is in good shape; no slums are allowed to fester. Soup kitchens do exist, but foreign labourers are often first in line.

In a meaningless battle in the slums where they lived, the gang leader had slit the throat of a boy he thought was too slick .

Among other things, Mr. Eagle has used the data to determine how slums can be a catalyst for a city's economic vitality.

My god, if you think of the way in which they've destroyed parts of cities under the rubric of eliminating slums.

Still, the demolition of arrival-city slums is all too common a practice in such cities as Mumbai and Manila.

And George Best learned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing the ball off a wall in the slums of Belfast.

Slums and squatter settlements are the result of people being priced out of legal land for housing, and housing markets.

He cites one study which showed that in west Africa malaria tends to spread faster in suburban neighbourhoods than in cities and slums.

Without a daily police presence, city services suffered, and doctors and other professionals began to shun the slums for safety reasons.

Like the "Slumdog Millionaire" actors, Syed was also plucked from Mumbai's teeming slums and catapulted to global stardom.

Violence has erupted periodically in the slums of Algiers and other cities for at least two years.

There has been a steady population shift from rural to urban areas, causing large urban slums and unemployment.

"We will need more than advertising to light up the slums, " she said.

The organization also provides training to its employees and supports schools in the slums in which many of its employees live.

The capitalist private ownership society people's able to destroy the most don't underworld, prostitutes, drugs, slums and high crime rate.

An illegitimate child, she grew up in the slums of Naples during wartime in dire poverty.

Who was he? A lowlife from the slums of Alexandria who hangs out with the likes of Ptolemy?

Even the police, one of the most brutal forces in the world, are starting to win praise for pacifying bandit-ridden slums.

The following year the Vatican gave her permission to leave Loretto and she set up her first school in the slums of Calcutta.

Slums 'are economic springboards, ' he said.

Then in 1964, Brazil passed a law to encourage landless peasants to leave the slums and develop the interior.

Still, the area remains poor and many residents dwell in slums, according to a report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

Such rapid and uncontrolled growth helped to turn parts of cities into slums.

it may be the next Reba people, in slums, dirty streets, tattered clothes next to their high-pitched singing the song of life.

He was actually living in the Kibera slums when his father called him and told him about Artemisia and the value-add potential.

However, this will be clearly unable to account for the vandalism prevailing among some slums or ghettoes.

It is a vow that will be hard to keep, except as part of a broad effort to improve life in the world's expanding slums.

The health ministry fears that if cholera gets a foothold in the capital, the urban slums are likely to be hardest hit.

As policemen beat him with a bamboo stick to shoo him and his family away, his home in Mumbai's slums was swiftly demolished.

Modern urban planning and redevelopment arose in response to the disorder and squalor of the slums created by the Industrial Revolution.

The game has attracted many players from Brazil's slums, who see soccer as a ticket out of poverty.

Use some of that money to wipe out these slums and put America back to work!

Visitors to the slums were clearly shocked to see so many families living in want.

I should throw away my pen and move into the slums, where I could relieve poverty better and more efficiently than with a poisonous book.

Oh, you may choose one: to see if you can build a city without slums , perhaps.

Slums will not go away because a few dozen Americans or Europeans spent a morning walking around them.

It has made itself a home in the wild forest of our great cities, amid the rank and choking vegetation of slums!

Many companies did not supply housing, leaving workers to find shelter in dodgy slums or encouraging them to sleep on the assembly line.

From Fifth Avenue I make a tour of the city -- to Park Avenue, to the slums, to factories, to parks where children play.

Here was the start of the so-called "slums" , an area of low-rise housing on government land.

With one project, the foundation supports the construction of pit latrines in rural areas and slums without sanitation facilities.

e. g. He grew up in the slums of the city.

And in a few countries the share of the urban population in slums has also grown.

Brazil should remember the empty stadium beside the Nelspruit slums, and that unused mountain of university linen.

Remember? We were living places, slums! Now is the center of the world economy, but my door at the center of the center.

A lot of places which are belonged to nobody but the government become a hot shot among the poor, then they become the slums.

Within urban areas there were vast "grey area" which could not be classified as slums, but were in need of rebuilding.

If China's conurbations are not to become fringed with slums it must be made easier for people to obtain legal city status.

In these slums you'll find a variety of well documented, ingenious recycling programs as well as a thriving textile and tanning industry.

Those most affected are the poorest populations often living in remote, rural areas, urban slums or in conflict zones.

Rapid, unplanned urbanization is expanding slums and informal settlements and municipal authorities are struggling to cope.

Today he's a community organizer in Kibera, one of the biggest slums in East Africa.

In July 2009, Ali's co-star, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, left the slums for a one-bedroom apartment.

Years of hate and mistrust are thawing in some of Rio's most violent slums.

In Rio, the authorities moved physically to wipe out favelas (slums)that had grown up on the hills separating middle-class neighbourhoods.

It supports more than 2. 5m people and may discourage the growth of urban slums in a poor country with a fast-growing population.

We send emergency food stocks to starving people from camps in Sudan to slums in -- around the world.

Before every election, politicians hold voter registration drives in slums, making it hard for nativists to gain political traction.

Now, Mathare Valley is one of the oldest slums in Africa.

The city is not ringed by sprawling slums; the roads are smooth; and the public fountains are full of water, not weeds.

Many groups that once unambiguously fit the category have clustered in slums in a process anthropologists call sedentarization.

When I go into the slums if I just light them up am I really helping them?

Based on his own novel, Pasolini's first film is a realistic and unsentimental look inside the slums of Rome.

In short, slums provide more opportunities for entrepreneurial activity than previously thought.

Poverty and illness are common in the slums, but things are bound to improve.

Qureshi proudly carried Ali through the Mumbai slums in February after she returned from the Oscar glory of Hollywood.

The UN troops spent their first two years helping to evict armed gangs from urban slums.

I left my home after the death of their parents two old cottage, which is a hodgepodge house, as well as the city's slums.

Nan CM Chang Community; resettled tenement communities; urban renewal; urban slums; female migrants.

Entire hillsides that had been packed with slums had been swept bare.

The only thing we could afford would be living in the slums, which is something I don't want to do.

But there are not enough public schools for all the children who live in the crowded slums of Nairobi.

Getting ahead of the game: A twin-track approach to improving existing slums and reducing the need for future slums.

Its concrete tower blocks were crumbling, the peasant housing like slums, and the infrastructure chronically rundown.

Police in Rio de Janeiro have taken control of one of Brazil's largest and most lawless slums.

New Delhi is planning to plant bamboo trees along roads to conceal its slums and garbage dumps ahead of next October's Commonwealth Games.

Upgrading slums with things like better streetlighting and keeping young people at school or in job training also helps to cut crime.

Foreign travellers are surprised to find that there are more and more high rises in the place that used to be slums.

go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities.

UN peacekeepers have mounted raids in some of the rougher slums in Port-au-Prince, the capital, to keep criminal gangs in check.

But the cities have not been able to provide housing, and the newcomers live in crowded slums.

Residents of Rio's slums sometimes torch buses to protest police killings of innocent people during raids against drug gangs.

eg. The President's visit to the slums was a mere pose.

But there are not enough public schools for all the children who lived in the crowded slums of Nairobi.

Many wealthy countries have growing urban slums that drain health resources and strain the social welfare system.

The message has to be: if you don't conserve now, the suburbs of Casablanca will become the slums of tomorrow.

The slums offered an ugly contrast to the classical grandeur of official Washington. Washington.

Many Chinese migrants have a plot of land to return to if the city does not work out, rather than having to fester in city slums.

These ghettos, neglected by the city authorities, became slums .

There may be some synergy between peacekeeping and security in favelas (slums).

Skyscrapers consume too much, stop building them. India leads the way, spread slums everywhere, cheap and easy.

Its commuter trains are crushed with passengers each morning; its squalid slums hum with industry and ambition.

With most youth in the slums lackingtheopportunitiesfor a good education and training, many fall victim to the promiscuous culture.

Inspired by Toynbee Hall, Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, opened Hull House in a neighborhood of slums in Chicago in 1889.

Water pipes in slums were often poorly maintained while leaky pipes were repaired more quickly in richer suburbs.

The new houses are fine but the slums that still exist are the other side of the coin.

The most severe problems are in high-density slums, where the risk of contamination is highest.

Djibouti's poor take refuge in slums on the city outskirts, constructing shelters from corrugated iron and other scrap material.

Elsewhere, countries like Ethiopia, Benin and Malawi now have more than 70% of their populations living in slums.

In many of these cities, slums have become the dominant type of human settlement.

and services to help people in slums like Sodom and Gomorrah join the formal economy.

The survey also showed that people living in the slums of Calcutta, India are happier than residents of California.

A huge international effort to eradicate slums over the past decade moved 227m people out of poverty, according to the UN.

There he organized students to collect leftover medicines and visit slums to treat the inhabitants.

The price of nearby apartments has soared. Other slums are also getting similar make-overs.

But in practice, Google has left out wide swaths of African cities -- the Kibera slums of Nairobi, most notably.

But there are not enough public schools for all of the children who lived in the crowded slums of Nairobi.

This can best be achieved by adopting a twin-track approach towards existing and potential future slums .

In India, an economic boom has seen billionaires' mansions constructed near abject slums.

United fans sing taunting songs about "Liverpool slums" , but their own city has similar levels of deprivation.

A man uses a photographic film strip to observe an annular eclipse near the Kibera slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2010.

When government schools fail, people start private schools in the slums, and the result is millions of 'slumdog millionaires'.

Not the working slums, they help create prosperity.

It is not the case that slums undermine prosperity.

In fact, Dharavi supply tap-water and electricity 24 hours. It is much better comparing other slums in the rest of the world.

Few had basic plumbing, and soon even the wealthier hutongs had deteriorated into slums.

People packed into slums need help, but the problem that needs solving ispoverty and lack of infrastructure, not overpopulation.

Social capital in the slums is at its most urban and dense.

Slums however also often include large numbers of unemployed people of working age, and children who are not attending school.

Ms Cook says that the scheme misses a trick by not building schools and redeveloping slums.

We drove through the downtown slums and saw life in the raw.

The slums offered an ugly contrast to the classical grandeur of official Washington.

go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities.

People use photographic film strips to observe an annular eclipse near the Kibera slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2010.

The city is launching a crusade to clean up the slums.

Socialist public ownership society can destroy the people of the underworld, the most don't prostitutes, drugs, slums and high crime rate.

Welcome to Dharavi, one of the largest slums in the world.

The picture shows in the police station near the Siliguri slums. A policeman was telling stories to children of slum.

The households that are poor and net purchasers of food are concentrated in the urban slums.

And basically what we want to address on this pallet sight is the problem of landfill slums which occurs out of the world.

Along with the rapid spread of urbanization has come the prolific growth of huge slums and shantytowns.

India's slums give the impression that urbanisation has reached saturation point.

The mayor is making a great effort to amend conditions in the slums.

One big difference in the villages, as opposed to the urban slums: there were more girls than boys who came to the kiosk.

He worked hard to improve the sanitary conditions of the slums.

The aftermath of the May 19th crackdown will probably see sporadic unrest, both around Bangkok's slums and in the north and north-east.

For his part, Mr Perrier worries that those in power want to "remove us and hide us again" in hillside slums.

If decent lodging is not built fast enough, slums may spring up instead.

It is a tragedy only for people living in slums in Asia or Mexico. But will the honeymoon couple from Edinburgh die?

They must remain in slums or live with relatives, often in overcrowded conditions.

In Asia and the Pacific, two out of five urban dwellers live in slums, compared with three out of five in Africa.

Soaked through but sober, the slim smuggler sneaked into the slums.

Working in the slums brought her up against the realities of poverty.

The following decade saw an influx of heavy weapons into the city's slums and the murder rate soared.

Forced to live in overcrowded slums or shantytowns, city-dwelling refugees have little or no access to health care or social services.

The novelists of the city, of slums and crowds, they call it love.

Water Aid is working in 17 of the city's 380 registered slums, providing water and sanitation.

Child mortality in the slums of Nairobi is 2. 5 times higher than in other parts of the city.

Mathare, one of Nairobi's largest sprawling slums, has over 600, 000 inhabitants.

Women become important, powerful creatures in the slums.

With their street life and intimacy under year-round sunshine, Egypt's slums are often less grim than those in other countries.

Already in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, according to the UN, almost three-quarters of city residents live in rapidly growing slums.

In the foreseeable future, India's slums will also continue to exist and develop.

the representative of naturalists in whose works reported truthfully and objectively the life in the slums.

she says haughtily . "Here, take this and lift yourself up from the slums. "

in the slums of Calcutta, India, happiness comes from the hearts of people that depends on each other.

The last 12 months have seen drug traffickers expelled from five of Rio's 1, 000-odd slums after a permanent occupation by military police.

Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums.

An influenza pandemic will not discriminate between those who live in mansions and those who live in slums.

Last year it was those shoes that prompted a debate on whether or not she should have worn high heels on a trip to the slums of Chile.

Many great figures dwelled in the slums in their childhood.

The most politically contested issues, such as bulldozing slums to make way for the contestants' village, have largely been settled.

The first thing that we did was walk through the slums.

This is Kibera, Kenya, one of the largest slums of Africa.

The dusty roads into the city pass miles of slums.

He worked to improve the sanitary conditions of slums.

Kibera, like most African slums, is a true arrival city.

Fighting has spread to other Kingston slums.

But this is Paraisopolis, one of Sã o Paulo's notorious crime-infested favelas (slums).

'In my mind, here's a kid who comes from the slums, me, ' Mr. Adelson, right, told ABC News.

There are hundreds of children in the slums who need to be nourished.

The city has 380 registered slums, but there are numerous other shanty where people have to find their own methods.

The slums were demolished before the town was extended.

It is easy to see why the use of heroin is so common in the crowded city slums and ghettos in America.

The government wants to raze the slums, move millions of poor people to high-rise buildings and let developers build expensive flats.

Crowded in slums, the urban poor cannot grow their own food; they have no choice but to buy it.

The strange allure of the slums.

It means going to look at the slums.

Already over 90% of the urban population of Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda, three of the world's most rural countries, live in slums.

Slums can't be bulldozed away overnight to build a theme park.

Many millions of people live in overcrowded slums and squatter settlements , without access to basic services .

Poverty and disease are common in the slums.

One in seven people on Earth lives in slums today.

There were many scenes of distress in the slums.

Slums are hotbeds of crime and disease.

Street Arabs are produced by slums and not by original sin.

Nearly a billion people live in slums, shantytowns, on sidewalks, under the bridges, or next to the railroad tracks.

What a wretched existence these people lead in the slums!

These are areas of poverty, slums, that generally lack basic services like clean water, or even permanent housing.

The good guys in Haiti are the defenceless people in the slums.

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that 1 billion people live in slums like Kibera.

And they worry more about spreading slums than expanding skylines.

So would a drop in the price of water in the poorest slums.

A beggarly existence in the slums.

But most are in poor countries and many, if not most, of their inhabitants live in slums.

This innovation is from the slums of Rio.

Nairobi's slums exploded in rage.

One in three urban dwellers lives in slums, or a total of 1 billion people worldwide.

Slums provide cheap nannies, drivers, and daily service to Mumbai . Can not operate without slums of Mumbai.

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that 1 billion people live in slums like Kibera - one in every six people in the world.

Slumdog (2008) Child inhabitants of Mumba's slums.

It is the first step in tackling the slums.

Ford, J. Slums and Housing. Vols. 1 and 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936.

The couple live in the slums of Dhaka with one child.

The food crisis of the past 18 months has sharpened worries about how to feed the teeming slums.

In India, there are nearly 100 million people living in slums.

That is the reason why heroin run rampant in American crowded slums.

Most of them come from countryside to make a living in city. Owning a house in slums means you take root in city.

Slums are hotbeds 0f crime.

An estimated 72% of city-dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa live in slums.

The situation has become so dire that there are reports of people eating mud cakes in some slums.

Hordes of youngsters cram the slums with little hope of a job.

The report says, more than sixty million people are added to city and surrounding areas each year mostly in slums in developing countries.

As the country proudly claims, slums and shantytowns are rare compared with other developing countries.

There are bad girls in your slums.

For example, the report calls for better land use so poor people do not have to live in slums.

Bombay is famous for not just its wealth, but also its slums.

All kinds of poverty are present in the slums.

He gave us a frightening, but believable, account of his childhood in the slums

I was with my friend Susan Meiselas, the photographer, in the Mathare Valley slums.

In Iraq, as a result of conflict, the number of people living in slums tripled in ten years.

For example only 4% people in Mumbai slums belong to the poor in India law.

As a social worker, she does a lot of work in slums.

There are few places where this is more clear than in Nairobi's slums.

It estimates that 42. 6m Indians live in city slums.

Because I was born in the slums, because I am a pour tea, I was a crook?

In the process of urbanization in the developing countries, there usually appear many urban "slums" .

Rs2. 5m: Why are there no slums in China?

We would then see in the developed world what we see in developing countries: vast slums.

she grew up in dire poverty, in the slums of Pozzuoli

He says he will come to our country and help the people living in slums.

Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Physical Improvement of Slums and Squatter Settlements;

Rebuilding slums with new wall materials in Yingkou Liaoning province

The film shows the stark realities of life in the slums

SOS; Elimination of Urban Slums initiative of the World Bank;

conditioned by the slums and raised by the streets

a beautiful garden amid the squalor of the slums

The vice factories of the slums

Syria may not have the sprawling slums of Cairo, but poverty is growing;

Metapopulation and the Study of Urban Slums

Kenya's slums are ticking time bombs,

Slum Cities and Cities with Slums

The squalor of the slums

The Latent Pressure from the Urban "Slums" in China and the Mechanism for its Elimination