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A Villa Miseria in Argentina
A favela in Brazil

This is a list of slums. 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

Main article: List of slums in Ghana
Taxi drivers waiting for fares near the beachfront slum in Accra's Jamestown

Kenya

Main article: List of slums in Kenya
A view of Kibera

Liberia

Main article: List of slums in Liberia

Mauritania

Main article: List of slums in Mauritania

Namibia

Main article: List of slums in Namibia

Nigeria

Main article: List of slums in Nigeria

South Africa

Main article: List of slums in South Africa

Asia

Bangladesh

Main article: List of slums in Bangladesh

India

Main article: List of slums in India
Slum improvement in Delhi, 1983

Indonesia

About half of each of all cities in Indonesia compromises slums.

Pakistan

A slum in Karachi
Main article: List of slums in Pakistan
  • Few Parts of Machar Colony[15]

Previous Slums in Pakistan

  • Orangi, previously but status changed to municipality from 2018 onward.

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Main article: List of slums in 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.

Bulgaria

кв. Столипиново, Шекер махала, Аджисан махала, Арман махала - гр. Пловдив/ kv. Stolipinovo, Sheker mahala, Adjisan mahala, Arman mahala - Plovdiv city



Greece

Nea zoi, Aspropyrgos, Attica

Dendropotamos, Thessaloniki

Malta

Model of Valletta's Manderaggio before demolition
  • 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.

Serbia

  • Cardboard city – "Karton city" (part of Belgrade) was depopulated and demolished starting on 31 August 2009; following four years of unsuccessful attempts.


Turkey

A Gecekondu in Istanbul
  • Sultanbeyli, Istanbul
  • Çinçin, one of the most popular Turkish gecekondu (slum) located in Ankara
  • Hacıhüsrev, largest slum of İstanbul
  • Hürriyet mahallesi, Adana
  • Kadifekale, Izmir
  • Horozköy, Manisa

Middle East

Yemen

North America

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

Haiti

Jamaica

Mexico

  • Neza-Chalco-Ixta 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.

Puerto Rico

South America

Argentina

Villa 31 in Buenos Aires
Main article: Villa miseria

In Buenos Aires:

Brazil

Main article: List of favelas in Brazil

Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas.

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

Colombia

Ciudad Bolivar

Peru

Main article: List of slums in 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. ^ "Review of Mike Davis' 'Planet of Slums'". The Struggle for the City. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. ^ Slum Dwellers to double by 2030 Archived 2013-03-17 at the Wayback Machine UN-HABITAT report, April 2007.
  4. ^ "Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  5. ^ "The Challenge of Slums". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
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  7. ^ "Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  8. ^ "UN-Habitat and the Kenya slum upgrading programme". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Mapping for better healthcare in Nairobi's slums". CIMSpatial group at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), University of Warwick, UK. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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  11. ^ a b "Adapting Cities to Climate Change". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
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  13. ^ "South Africa's Magnifying Glass". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  14. ^ Ramesh, Randeep (22 December 2006). "Hidden cost of 'cheap chic'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  15. ^ "Demolishing Slums". The Nation. 2015-07-12. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
  16. ^ [1] "What Is Urban Upgrading?" MIT. Accessed 3 December 2010

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