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    horrible living conditions in the lower East Side of New York. He too tasted part of the harsh life as a poor immigrant with very little to eat on daily basics‚ hunger‚ homelessness and very suicidal. Nevertheless‚ Riis made it an objective to study the “slum” in which poor people living their lives by judging instead of trying to identify them. He just felt uncomfortable due to many immigrants from all over. Maybe‚ he felt the loss of hope and misery but not to the full extent. Therefore‚ Jacob A. Riis

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    Malik‚ an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai‚ who is about to experience the most monumental day of his life. With the whole nation watching‚ he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”. But when the show breaks for the night‚ police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street boy know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence‚ Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up‚ of

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    Topic The relationship between urban slums and youth crime: a study of selected slums in Jos North local government Area Name: Elekpa Gabriel Inaku Mat no: UJ/2014/PGSS/0148 Supervisor: Dr. Gulleng Introduction Background The slum challenge continues to be one of the faces of poverty‚ inequality and deprivation in many cities in developing countries (WRC 2016). The UN- Habitat defines slums as contiguous settlements that lack one or more of the following five conditions: access to clean water

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    In this historical study an analysis of the reformation ideology of the urban slum will be defined through the clearing out of the lower classes in New York City’s Five Points Tenements during the late 19th century. The 19th century “slum” was a negative social and economic development that was based on locating immigrant workers in New York City into low-income tenement projects‚ which was an attempt to accommodate the massive influx of low-cost labor from Europe. The Five Points is an important

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    1 Land tenure systems in the slum settlements of Nairobi: implications for slum upgrading programmes Ronald matende omwoma mtomron@yahoo.com Department of lands‚ ministry of land s and settlement Registered land management surveyor‚ institution of Surveyors of Kenya March 2013 ABSTRACT This study utilizes secondary data to assess and describe the state of land ownership‚ tenure and tenure systems in the informal settlements of Nairobi‚ Kenya. There are 206 informal settlements in Nairobi covering

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    “In One Slum‚ Misery‚ Work‚ Politics and Hope” published in the New York Times and written by Jim Yardley exposes what life is like inside one of the most densely populated and largest slums in the world. Yardley breaks life in the slum into four segments‚ “misery” discusses the lack of infrastructure‚ “work” covers how the economy and industry are run‚ “politics” explains the inequality in the urban landscape of Mumbai‚ while “hope” demonstrates the payoffs of hard work for those living in Dharavi

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    people living in Slums of Islamabad by Wealth Index and by household deprivations as an application to Human Development Index (HDI) Nadeem Akhtar Abstract In Pakistan and across the world‚ slums have been the characteristics of urban setting. Almost every slum setting exits across the boundaries of cities but in Islamabad‚ slums are right at the center of urban sectors and they are inhabited particularly on banks of riverine nullas. Notwithstanding‚ CDA has approved these slums. People started to

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    Slums‚ Favelas‚ Ghettos and Shanty Towns: A Global Epidemic What is a slum? Tenements‚ shanty-towns‚ ghettos‚ and Hoovervilles are all terms that have historical and social meanings that help to give us insight on what people consider slums globally. The term slum is often used interchangeably with similar words in local contexts to describe varying types of informal settlements. Often these informal settlements‚ herein called to as ‘slums’‚ refer to semi-legal or unsanctioned subdivisions

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    after Tokyo in Japan and Mumbai in India. Lagos is the main city of the south-western part of Nigeria‚ Africa. The GDP per capita in Lagos is $3‚649. Over 10‚000 people arrive at Lagos every week in search of jobs and most end up in the city’s mega slum do to the lack of job opportunity. Children living in poverty are those who experience deprivation of the material‚ spiritual and emotional resources needed to survive‚ develop and thrive‚ leaving them unable to enjoy their lives‚ achieve their full

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