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    2008 by director Danny Boyle explores the lives of two young brothers‚ Salim and Jamal from the slums of Mumbai‚ India. Throughout the duration of the movie‚ the lifestyle and health of the boys vary drastically due to individual aspects and environments influencing these changes. At the beginning of the movie‚ we are introduced to Salim and Jamal as young boys living with their mother in the Indian Slum of Bombay‚ characterised by a high population of low income settlers and poor living conditions

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    References: PRIMARY CASE STUDY: Slum upliftment: ·http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-14/delhi/ 28131084_1_basti-nizamuddin-conduct-heritage-guidesas retrieved on 08/10/2012 ·http://www.nizamuddinrenewal.org/index.php?option=com _content&view=article&id=200&itemid=120–

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    Urban Health in Uttar Pradesh: Challenges and Opportunities Presented in Workshop on Maternal‚ Neonatal and Child Health Scenario in the Slums of Meerut‚ Uttar Pradesh: Implications for Programme and Policy 14th April’09‚ New Delhi April 09‚ By Dr. Gajraj Prasad Add. Director‚ MCH Directorate of Family Welfare Government of Uttar Pradesh Outline Growing Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Uttar Pradesh Health related Problems among Urban Poor Barriers limiting access to MCH care Upcoming opportunities

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    and any other materials that can be bought cheap. Some houses have dangerous materials such as asbestos and are very dangerous for these people. In Dharavi a slum in Mumbai‚ Most families all live in one house and use each room for many things such as eating on their floor ‚ sleeping on their floor etc. Developers sometimes bull doze slums and rebuild over them. However they offer the people replacement houses by creating many small units for families who have lost their homes. Traffic Infrastructure-

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    60% of the population in Mumbai are estimated to live in Slums‚ the largest of which is quite near the city centre and is known as Dharavi. Here the homes are made out of materials that people have found such as corrugated iron and wood. Over time people upgrade their housing to make it more substantial as they

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    10143/) Binns‚ Tony‚ et al. Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies‚ Rostow’s Stages of Growth Development Model‚ 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson Education‚ (2008). UN-HABITAT Twenty First Session of the Governing Council (2007) Slum Dwellers to double by 2030: Millennium Development Goal Could Fall Short Giok Ling Ooi & Kai Hong Phua Jianfa Shen. 2000. Chinese urbanization and urban policy. China Review 2000‚ pp. 450-480. Kingsley Davis. (2012) The origin and growth of urbanization

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    in other members of the jury who were leaning in that direction a guilty verdict. The character that is the least effective critical thinker is juror 3 (Lee J. Cobb). Cobb made more internal attributions for the boy’s behavior. He agreed with the slum kid idea‚ but also focused on the notion that kids today don’t have any respect or sense of morality. He is basing this decision on his own life situation because of his poor relationship with his son. Cobb categorizes the defendant as a rebellious

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    contribute to the preparation of Core Business Principles for Sustainable Urbanization that will be presented at the Fifth Session of the World Urban Forum to be held in Rio de Janeiro in May 2010. Given the challenge of urban poverty‚ with 1 billion slum dwellers projected to rise to more than 1.4 billion by 2020‚ UNHABITAT is well aware that the private sector is not merely a part of the solution‚ but instead is a vital partner that must be engaged if the world’s cities are to achieve sustainability

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    Mirror with a Memory

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    photography and of a man names Jacob Riis. Riis came from Scandinavia as a young man and moved to the United States. Riis firsthand experienced the bad conditions in the heart of the slums of New York. He worked from place to place‚ doing odd jobs until he found a job as a police reporter for the New York Tribune. Riis lived in a slum called “The Bend.” When he became a reporter‚ Riis aspired to make people see the awful conditions of “The Bend.” Riis was continuously disappointed because his articles did

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    Culture variations around the world bring uniqueness and identification to each individual. Culture is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns‚ arts‚ beliefs‚ institutions‚ and all other products of human work and thought‚ and through history‚ the Victorian Era has been one of the most influential times in English history. In the book "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ the author uses images of crime‚ urban life‚ and in heritance to portray the culture of the Victorian

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