List of slums
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
- Ezbet el-Haggana – a slum in Cairo
Ghana
- Amui Djor [4]
- Ashiaman [5]
- Fadama [6]
- Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra
- Kojokrom
- New Takoradi
- Suame Magazine
Kenya
- Baba Ndogo
- Dandora
- Fuata Nyayo[7]
- Gatwekera
- Huruma
- Kambi Muru
- Kangemi
- Kawangware
- Kiambiu
- Kianda
- Kibera
- Kichinjio
- Kisumu Ndogo
- Korogocho
- Laini Saba
- Lindi
- Majengo
- Makina
- Makongeni
- Mashimoni
- Mathare Valley
- Mugumoini
- Mukuru kwa Njenga
- Nyalenda
- Pumwani
- Raila
- Sarang'ombe
- Shilanga
- Siranga
- Soweto East
- Soweto West
- Ziwa la Ng'ombe[8]
Liberia
- Brewerville
- Clara Town, Bushrod Island
- Logan Town
- Sinkor
- Slipway
- Sonewein
- South Beach Bay
- West Point
Mauritania
Namibia
- Africa Tongashili
- Freedomland
- Goreangab
- Okahandja Park
- Okandundu
- Okantunda
- Okuryangava
- One Nation N° 1
- One Nation N° 2
- Ongulumbashe N° 1
- Onyika
- Otjomuise
- Samuel Maherero
Nigeria
- Agege
- Ajegunle
- Amukoko [9]
- Badia
- Bariga
- Bodija
- Ijeshatedo/Itire
- Ilaje
- Iwaya [10]
- Makoko [10]
- Mushin [11]
- Oke-Offa Babasale
- Somolu
South Africa
- Alexandra, Gauteng [12]
- Cape Flats [13]
- Freedom Park, North West
- Inanda
- Joe Slovo (Cape Town)
- Kennedy Road, Durban
- Cato Manor, Durban
- Soweto
- Wallacedene, Cape Town
- Khayelitsha
Swaziland
Asia
Bangladesh
- Begun Bari [16]
- Karail
- Kawnia
- Lalbagh
- Mohammadpur
- Mymensingh
- Taju Company's Bosti
- Tejgaon Sattola Bosti
- Pallabi Jhilpar Bosti
- Begunbari Bosti
- Agargaon Bosti
China
Hong Kong
India
- Arif Nagar
- Arjun Singhpura
- Arvinds Nagar
- Banganga
- Baiganwadi, Mumbai
- Chandmari
- Chowdhary Mohalla
- Dharavi, Mumbai
- Gandhi Nagar
- Guda Upar
- Harijan Mohalla
- Indira Ekta Nagar
- Indira Nagar
- Juhu, Mumbai
- Kathputhli slum
- Panchsheel Nagar
- Pilkhana, Kolkata
- Prem Sagar
- Ramaji Ka pura
- Rasulpura
- Sahu Ji Ka Pura
- Sanjay Nagar mumbi
- Sarvodaya Nagar (Jabalpur)
- Sethi Sambandh Nagar
- Supatal
- Tekri Mohalla
- Tikia Para
- Vidya Nagar
- Vadaj
Sri Lanka
- Maligawatte
- Usavi Watta (Usaui Walta)
- Wanathamulla
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
The following are former slum areas that have subsequently been either gradually developed or abruptly cleared and demolished.
England
- Little Ireland – a slum district of the township of Manchester in Lancashire in the early 19th century.[17]
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
- Cañada Real
- Singuerlín – a former slum that was built in the 1910s
Turkey
Middle East
Pakistan
- Orangi Town, currently the largest slum in Asia.[18]
- Parts of Machar Colony
- Parts of Lyari Town
Yemen
North America
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
Brazil
Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas.
Cubatão
Minas Gerais
Rio de Janeiro
- Within Niterói
- Within Rio de Janeiro (for a complete list, see the article in the Portuguese WikiPedia)
- Babilônia
- Benjamin Constant
- Cajueiro
- Cantagalo
- Chapéu Mangueira
- Cidade de Deus
- Complexo da Maré
- Complexo do Alemão
- do Humaitá
- Dona Marta
- Jacarezinho
- Ladeira dos Tabajaras
- Mangueira
- Manguinhos
- Mineira
- Morro Azul
- Morro da Babilônia
- Morro de Santa Marta
- Morro do Borel
- Morro dos Cabritos
- Morro do Cantagalo
- Morro dos Macacos
- Pavão-Pavãozinho
- Rocinha
- Salgueiro
- Serrinha
- Tavares Bastos
- Tuiuti
- Vidigal
- Vigário Geral
- Vila Cruzeiro
- Vila Parque da Cidade
- Vila Pereira da Silva (Pereirão)
São Paulo
- Within São Paulo (for a complete list, see the article in the Portuguese WikiPedia)
Pernambuco
- Within Recife
- Olinda
- Comunidade V8
- Ilha do Rato (Also Known as Ilha do Santana)
- Ilha do Maruim
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.
- Comas
- Villa El Salvador
- San Juan de Lurigancho
- Cono Sur
Venezuela
See also
- Campamento (Chile) – a term in Chile to shanty towns.
- Cortiço – a Portuguese term commonly used in Brazil and Portugal to describe an area of urban housing where many people live in conditions of poor hygiene and poverty.
- Rugby boy – a common group or gang of street children seen in the Philippines, they are one of the most well known and recognized poverty inflicted people found in the slums of the Philippines.
- Slum upgrading – consists of physical, social, economic, organizational and environmental improvements to slums undertaken cooperatively and locally among citizens, community groups, businesses and local authorities.[19]
- Villa miseria – a type of shanty town or slum found in Argentina
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References
- ^ United Nations, 2007. The Millennium Development Goals Report. p. 26
- ^ Article on Mike Davis's book 'Planet of Slums
- ^ Slum Dwellers to double by 2030 UN-HABITAT report, April 2007.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage - Google Books
- ^ The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 - Google Books
- ^ Globalizing city: the urban and economic transformation of Accra, Ghana - Richard Grant - Google Books
- ^ Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) - Google Books
- ^ UN-Habitat and the Kenya slum upgrading programme: strategy document - Raakel Syrjänen - Google Books
- ^ Live Working Or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global - Paul Mason - Google Books
- ^ a b Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the ... - Google Books
- ^ Global Politics in a Changing World: A Reader - Google Books
- ^ South Africa's Magnifying Glass: A Profile of Gauteng - Google Books
- ^ Global Cities: Cape Town - Rob Bowden - Google Books
- ^ Urbanization and development in Swaziland - Google Books
- ^ http://www.citiesalliance.org/ca/sites/citiesalliance.org/files/Civis2English%5B2%5D.pdf
- ^ Ramesh, Randeep (22 December 2006). "Hidden cost of 'cheap chic'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
- ^ "A History of the Irish in Manchester". Prideofmanchester.com. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ^ Mumbai's Shadow City
- ^ [1] "What Is Urban Upgrading?" MIT. Accessed 3 December 2010
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