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Slums built on swamp land near a garbage dump in East Cipinang, Jakarta, Indonesia.
A slum in Delhi, India in 1973
A slum in Manila, Philippines
A Villa Miseria in Argentina
A favela in Brazil

This is a list of slums in the world. 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 1990 and 2005.[1] However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums[2] and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.[3]

Africa

Egypt

Ghana

Taxi drivers waiting for fares near the beachfront slum in Accra's Jamestown

Kenya

A view of Kibera

Liberia

Mauritania

Namibia

Nigeria

South Africa

A shantytown in Cape Flats

Swaziland

Asia

Bangladesh

China

Hong Kong

India

One of the entrances to Dharavi
Slum improvement in Delhi, 1983
Slum in Mumbai, 1979

Sri Lanka

Australia

Melbourne

  • Little Lon district – In the nineteenth century the area consisted of timber and brick cottages, shops and small factories and was home to an ethnically diverse and generally poor population. Today there are few reminders of the area's former notoriety.

Europe

A living area at the former Cardboard city

The following are former slum areas that have subsequently been either gradually developed or abruptly cleared and demolished.

England

Malta

  • The Manderaggio, an area in Valletta that was a slum area from the 16th to 20th centuries. It was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by housing estates.

Scotland

  • Gorbals, Industrial area of Glasgow that used to have run-down makeshift housing

Serbia

  • Cardboard city – The Cardboard city was depopulated and demolished starting on August 31, 2009; following 4 years of unsuccessful attempts.

Spain

Turkey

A Gecekondu in Istanbul

Middle East

Pakistan

Yemen

North America

Cité Soleil, 2002
Housing development at Iztapalapa
A slum in the hillside at Ecatepec, Mexico

Haiti

Jamaica

United States

Mexico

  • Neza-Chalco-Izta in Mexico City, is a Ciudad Perdida, rated as the world's largest mega-slum in 2006. The area extends towards the municipalities of Chimalhuacan, Los Reyes to the west of Ixtapaluca and South of Neza and Ecatepec de Morelos north of Neza in the metropolitan area periphery and with Santa Marta Acatitla in the Distrito Federal's borough of Iztapalapa. Contrary to many slums in India, Brazil, Indonesia, Venezuela or Sub-Saharan Africa, these slums are urbanized and most inhabitants have access to basic amenities, however, the quality of basic amenities are debatable as the vast majority of people live under the poverty line, high crime rate, and in steep hills and grey block housing.

South America

Colombia

Ciudad Bolivar

Brazil

Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas.

Cubatão

Minas Gerais

Rio de Janeiro

Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro. Although favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil, many of the more famous ones exist in Rio — a widely photographed city

São Paulo

Pernambuco

Bahia

  • Alagados (in Salvador)

Peru

Pueblos jóvenes is the nickname given to the vast shanty towns that surround Lima and other cities of Peru. Many of these towns have developed into significant districts in Lima such as Villa El Salvador and Comas District, Lima.

Venezuela

Petare slum in Caracas

See also

A campamento in Chile

References

  1. ^ United Nations, 2007. The Millennium Development Goals Report. p. 26
  2. ^ Article on Mike Davis's book 'Planet of Slums
  3. ^ Slum Dwellers to double by 2030 UN-HABITAT report, April 2007.
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage - Google Books
  5. ^ The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 - Google Books
  6. ^ Globalizing city: the urban and economic transformation of Accra, Ghana - Richard Grant - Google Books
  7. ^ Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) - Google Books
  8. ^ UN-Habitat and the Kenya slum upgrading programme: strategy document - Raakel Syrjänen - Google Books
  9. ^ Live Working Or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global - Paul Mason - Google Books
  10. ^ a b Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the ... - Google Books
  11. ^ Global Politics in a Changing World: A Reader - Google Books
  12. ^ South Africa's Magnifying Glass: A Profile of Gauteng - Google Books
  13. ^ Global Cities: Cape Town - Rob Bowden - Google Books
  14. ^ Urbanization and development in Swaziland - Google Books
  15. ^ http://www.citiesalliance.org/ca/sites/citiesalliance.org/files/Civis2English%5B2%5D.pdf
  16. ^ Ramesh, Randeep (22 December 2006). "Hidden cost of 'cheap chic'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  17. ^ "A History of the Irish in Manchester". Prideofmanchester.com. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
  18. ^ Mumbai's Shadow City
  19. ^ [1] "What Is Urban Upgrading?" MIT. Accessed 3 December 2010

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