Slums Introduction A Slum refers to informal settlements within urban areas or cities. The informal settlements depict inadequate housing and miserable condition with reference to living standards (Meade p 43). In the slums‚ numerous individuals seek housing facilities within small living spaces. The slums also lack basic local authority services such as sanitation‚ collection of waste‚ water‚ drainage systems‚ street lighting‚ and emergency roads. Most slums also lack schools‚ hospital‚ and public
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Life In The Slums Plan Intro: Life is tough living in the slums‚ but I ’m used to it now so it ’s not as hard as it was when we first moved here. Especially considering we were looking to come to the city for a better lifestyle‚ and to have a better chance for my parents to get a job‚ and for my siblings and I to go to school. My name is Anikal and I ’m 13‚ I have 3 older brothers‚ and one younger sister. Para 1: living conditions and hygiene and population density Moved to Mumbai 4 years
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s . n 1 APPEA RANCE Local National (Ahmedabad Parivartan) International (Rocinha brazil) Inference This may be called a universal mark of the slum; its aspect of neglect and disorder with respect to building‚ yards and streets. The appearance is generally one of dilapidated and old structures and a declining trend in respect of amenities. Local ECONO MIC STATUS National International Inference Very poor economy status according to satisfy
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toll on individuals living in slums in poor areas such as Mumbai. Since Mumbai is a pretty expensive place to live in‚ it is home to some of the world’s richest and poorest people. “Today‚ over half of Mumbai’s population of over 15 million lives in settlements‚ occupying only 8% of the city’s area” (Anand and Rademacher). It is the largest slum in the world. The government thinks it is best to get rid of the slum because the land is very valuable‚ but demolishing this slum would cause disastrous effects
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ASIA Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent‚ located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth’s total surface area (or 30% of its land area) and with approximately 3.9 billion people‚ it hosts 60% of the world’s current human population. During the 20th century Asia’s population nearly quadrupled. Asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four-fifths of Eurasia. It is located to the east of the Suez Canal and the Ural Mountains‚ and
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the center there is 1 square mile area that is different. This is the slum called Dharavi. To the unknown eye‚ Dharavi is a dirty poor district that has nothing to give to the community. There is garbage that is dug through‚ poverty‚ and disease. That is what you would think upon first looking at it‚ but what is shocking is how thriving it actually is. There are so many different aspects about it that makes it not just a slum‚ but almost like a thriving community. First off‚ the people who dig through
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ALMA: World`s Largest Telescope Gerald John C. Guillermo Hubble Space Telescope may be awesome but these new radio telescopes in Atacama Desert‚ Chile may be more awesome. Built in the driest place in the Earth‚ the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or ALMA provides the most distinct and the most precise images of local stars and planet formation and can also distinguish the birth of neighboring stars and some of the most distant‚ ancient galaxies. ALMA was initially a 50-50 partnership between the United
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Kibera Case Study:- [pic] Kibera is a slum divsion in the City of Nairobi‚ Kenya. It is located 5 kilometres from the city centre. It is the largest slum in Nairobi and the second largest in Africa. A 2009 population and housing survey reported that Kibera’s population as 170‚070. It is hard to acccurately compute the population due to the fact that the slum hasnt been officially reconised by the Kenyan government. Furthermore because it is a slum‚ residents may not be able to read or write
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THE CONDITIONS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVING IN INDIAN SLUMS The definition of "slum" varies from country to country. In India‚ The Slum Areas Improvement and Clearance Act of 1956 defines ’slum areas’ as places where buildings: are in any respect unfit for human habitation; and are by reason of dilapidation‚ overcrowding‚ faulty arrangement and design of such buildings‚ narrowness or faulty arrangement of streets‚ lack of ventilation‚ light‚ sanitation facilities or any combination of these factors which
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Slums of Two Different sides of the World There are many similarities between Meirelles’s City of God‚ released in 2003 in Brazil and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire‚ released in 2008 in the United Kingdom‚ at the most the two films being comparable of main characters. These similarities are two different by two different sides of the world and how the main characters get out of the slums. These both films have a positive outcomes but have had rough upcoming to get out of the ghetto. The first
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