Kibera, a slum of hope or dispair? by Jordan Boothby on Prezi.
The universal definition of a slum as found in the dictionary is said to be a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and filth. Slums are seen as a purely physical phenomenon. Slums are populated by two groups of people, the poor and the strangers.
Urban slums are settlements, neighborhoods, or city regions that cannot provide the basic living conditions necessary for its inhabitants, or slum dwellers, to live in a safe and healthy environment. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) defines a slum settlement as a household that cannot provide one of the following basic living characteristics.
Background The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the “largest public housing authority in the nation” (Developments, 2015). In existence since 1934 (About NYCHA: NYCHA at 70, 2015), NYCHA is a low to moderate income public housing initiative consisting of 328 developments throughout all five boroughs of New York City.
A slum is usually a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.
Jamie O’Brien, in Shaping Knowledge, 2014. Micro-level socio-spatial change: slum sanitation. Slums grow because people are attracted from the countryside by the opportunities for work afforded by major cities. These workers have insufficient resources to live in the city itself, so they settle on the urban periphery, often in dilapidated and unhealthy conditions.
The multi award winning film written by Vikas Swarup and directed by Danny Boyle explores the themes of poverty and the effects it has on a child’s life and the way they grow up.The film follows the lives of Jamal, Latika and Salim from a young age growing up and experiencing the worst of the poverty struck slums.The slums are a tough place to grow up and a large number both children and.
Adopting one definition of slums, the National Sample Survey Organization counted 44 million slum dwellers in 2008, but adopting another definition, the Census of India counted 65 million slum dwellers in 2011.2 Regardless of definition, these official agencies commonly underestimate the slum population.3 These issues are hardly unique to.