Last month, the government banned new construction in Abaco's shantytowns.
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Shoot-outs in favelas, or shantytowns, have killed dozens of people.
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Shantytowns are splashed high up on the hills that cup the city.
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Parks have become shantytowns, and public services are either nonexistent or highly dysfunctional.
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Many of Italy's Roma live in squalid shantytowns isolated on the outskirts of cities.
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Injustice is made apparent as the authorities are shown demolishing shantytowns, seemingly at random.
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They alerted Tann to children on riverbanks, in shantytowns, or walking home from school.
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The tenements that were on that land before were shacks, they were like shantytowns.
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Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric revered in the shantytowns, emerged as the front-runner.
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Residents of Rio's shantytowns bemoan the end of the army's 15-month mission to evict gangs.
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People crowded into slums, shantytowns and favelas from where they were hard put to reach jobs.
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Most displaced people, or desplazados, have moved to vast shantytowns in the main cities of Colombia.
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People called these shantytowns Hoovervilles in honor of the president who presided over the Great Depression.
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He took to frequenting Rio's favelas, the direly impoverished hillside shantytowns that overlook the prosperous city.
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But surely those things happened only in desperate shantytowns, not in leafy, funky, elegant El Hatillo.
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The Fates walked among the crowd, raising lanterns above their heads, harmonizing about hurricanes and shantytowns.
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It concerned a cop who had killed four residents in one of the shantytowns of Metro Manila.
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The town also assigned Roma children to schools far from the shantytowns and camps where they lived.
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A city of opposites, shiny skyscrapers sit alongside 16th-century Spanish buildings and shantytowns next to futuristic constructions.
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Shantytowns were commonly known as "hobo jungles," and that's how The Jungle is believed to have gotten its moniker.
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The city's population swelled—from 6.6m to 2280m between 2000 and 214—crowding into favelas (shantytowns) on its periphery.
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From hipsterish food-trucks to hawkers in favelas (shantytowns), businesses use it to plug their wares and take orders.
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Recruited via word of mouth and WhatsApp, the migrants often live in shantytowns with no running water or electricity.
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The shantytowns are inundated with mud when it rains, and offer only metal sheets as protection against the sun.
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Dorian's official death toll is 61, but officials believe that many bodies remain among the rubble in Abaco's shantytowns.
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This has raised fears of creating favelas or shantytowns in the country with Roma families seen as particularly vulnerable.
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Although his most ardent supporters are Shias in the shantytowns of Baghdad and Basra, he won by broadening his appeal.
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Some refused to leave what was left of their shantytowns, in fear that they may never be able to return.
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Downpours were so bad in Paraguay's capital, Asunción, that shantytowns sprouted along city streets, filled with families displaced by floods.
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But Santiago's poverty also is striking: crumbling public hospitals, overcrowded schools, shantytowns that sit on the outskirts of the metropolis.
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In March, Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman and a prominent critic of police killings in shantytowns, was assassinated.
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" She mentioned "intensified systematic inequality in social classes, the decline of public trust and an increase in environmental crisis and shantytowns.
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When you look at the -- when you look at these shantytowns and the disease that&aposs being spread and the feces.
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As poor countries get richer, their vulnerability to disasters at first increases, as people crowd into cities that are largely shantytowns.
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A huge percentage of the world's population have to live in shantytowns and refugee camps, in cobbled together shacks like mine.
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I felt like puking, thinking of the polluted puddles that Marcos fished in the shantytowns of this godforsaken place, Asunción, Paraguay.
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Trash picking is a profession more often associated with shantytowns and favelas than a city at the doorstep of Silicon Valley.
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Shantytowns without sewage systems have mushroomed all over — next to railroad tracks and public parks and behind high-end shopping centers.
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Children from shantytowns in Brazil are growing bellies even as they&aposre suffering from stunted growth and have little lean mass.
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Westerners looking at the crowded shantytowns around Manila or Nairobi cannot imagine why anyone would leave a picturesque village to live there.
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After a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, thousands of displaced Haitians resettled in the Bahamas — many in the shantytowns of Abaco.
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The city struggled to accommodate the newcomers, and hundreds of thousands ended up living in sprawling, overcrowded shantytowns packed with squatter huts.
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Outside the island of New Providence, Abaco was believed to have had the largest population of Haitians, many residing in informal shantytowns.
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Several major rivers already carrying twice as much water as usual threatened to wash over shantytowns built in flood zones along Peru's coast.
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After narrowly losing the election in 2011, she has spent the past five years campaigning incessantly, visiting remote Andean villages and urban shantytowns.
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In Montana, he visited shantytowns and in New Zealand a pa , or Maori longhouse; he adored India for its color and its clamor.
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Sure, there are no breadlines today, and shantytowns aren't springing up outside every city, but the economy is still rough for young people.
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Thirty years ago the hills around Turkish cities looked much like Brazil's, stacked higgledy piggledy with unlicensed shantytowns appropriately known as gecekondu (built overnight).
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Residents of shantytowns are at particular risk in the months of February and March, as the weather warms and the rains stop, officials said.
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The city's notorious crime rate looms large, and Amnesty International has called attention to the death toll from police crackdowns in the favelas, or shantytowns.
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Last month the leader of one of the strongest Shia factions, Muqtada al-Sadr, sent out his followers from Baghdad's shantytowns to join the protests.
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Whether they live on Rio's glitzy seafront, in one of the city's 1,000-odd favelas (shantytowns) or in dowdy dormitory districts, the mood is grim.
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By 2010, Ms. Sabouni said, almost half of the Syrian population was living in "informal housing" — shantytowns that were sorely lacking in infrastructure and amenities.
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In order to shape the redevelopment project to which the neighborhood belongs, the district cobbled together land from the greenbelt, the markets and former shantytowns.
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Now, more than a year after the government embarked on a plan to eradicate shantytowns on Abaco, Dorian appears to have helped finish the job.
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They work long, exhausting hours for negligible pay while being forced to live in overcrowded, derelict shantytowns, often with no access to electricity or water.
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Brazilian cities underwent rapid and mostly unplanned urbanization in the last six decades, giving rise to vast shantytowns, erected haphazardly without adhering to building codes.
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As Indians get richer more will be able to afford air-conditioning; even those in shantytowns can paint their corrugated-iron roofs white to reflect sunlight.
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The newcomers crowded into shantytowns where building codes were not enforced, says Virginie Duvat, a French geographer who wrote a study of the island in 2008.
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Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shia cleric with a base in the shantytowns of Baghdad and Basra, has allied with communists, whom he once damned as heretics.
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The government worries that farmers might sell everything and rush into cities, creating shantytowns filled with landless, jobless migrants who could pose a threat to stability.
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"It's tough for people in the shantytowns," he said, because their plywood houses are not built to withstand hurricane-force winds and are vulnerable to flooding.
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Weeks earlier, the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, pledged to clear Lagos of the packed shantytowns that line its waterways, saying the settlements are havens for criminals.
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They fluctuate in size, but in the 20 years I've been in San Francisco, people have lived in shantytowns of tarps and mobile homes on Division Street.
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To the west, shantytowns cover the hilltops like grimy mosaics, looking down on the city center, a welter of unpainted concrete apartment towers and distressed public buildings.
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But above all the soaring price of oil gave him an unprecedented windfall, some of which he showered on social programmes in the long-neglected ranchos (shantytowns).
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The economic disparities have grown so stark, she said, that more shantytowns are popping up on the outskirts of big cities, and people of color largely populate them.
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It means turning your eyes away from the shantytowns in Cape Town, where the fight for the right to water and sanitation has been going on for years.
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As the district expanded, it took on other characteristics, notably as a home to gecekondu, or shantytowns "built overnight" by migrant Turks from other parts of the country.
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Graybill would bring food and supplies to shantytowns that had sprung up in the woods; during Nottage's research for "Sweat," he guided her there to interview the residents.
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He noted that in Latin America, including his own homeland of Argentina, many people migrate internally, leaving the countryside for big cities, only to end up living in shantytowns.
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It's all too common for communities living in shantytowns in countries like Brazil and India to be pushed off of their land, even if they've been there for generations.
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The recession never looked or felt as bad as the Great Depression—there were no visible breadlines, no shantytowns springing up on the edges of the least fashionable boroughs.
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Starting in 2008 the Rio de Janeiro state government sent troops into 38 favelas (shantytowns) to evict drug gangs, then set up "pacification police units" to keep the peace.
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But the problem cuts across the capital's social, political and geographic divide, affecting wealthy gated communities and shantytowns, areas that support the opposition and those loyal to the government.
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From ages 5 to 11, I traveled with my mother from Detroit to a Berkeley commune to a socialist collective farm in Chile to the coastal shantytowns of Peru.
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In the villas miserias (shantytowns) on the periphery of the metropolis, demand for food handouts at comedores (soup kitchens) has risen sharply, prompting congress to approve emergency food aid.
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From a patchwork of shantytowns to retail spaces, Tracey Snelling's miniature worlds describe the disorder of life and offer a compelling argument that the way we inhabit space is subjective.
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Also known as gypsies and nomads, tens of thousands of Roma live across Italy, many in squalid shantytowns on the outskirts of major cities and on the fringes of society.
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The producers looked outward rather than inward, celebrating Brazil's cannibal appropriation of other cultures to feed its own creations: bossa nova and the funk of Rio's favelas (shantytowns), for example.
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Tens of thousands of Roma, also known as "gypsies" and "nomads", live across Italy, many in squalid shantytowns on the outskirts of major cities and on the fringes of society.
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Destitute peasants fled to urban centers, where they settled in shantytowns like Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, a slum 10 miles east of Mexico City that eventually held more than a million people.
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During this correspondent's four-day stay in Santa Teresa, a hilly district of trendy eateries and hotels, not a night went by without the crackle of gunshots from nearby favelas (shantytowns).
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"The residents want a written statement from city hall, promising to look into other options aside from hotels for rehousing," said Livia Otal, the Doctors of the World coordinator for shantytowns.
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The British reporter interviewed former sicarios in Mexican prisons, rode shotgun with police through Venezuelan slums, and investigated crime lords in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and shantytowns of Kingston.
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The images were captured by mobile phone on July 4th from a cable car hoisted above Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's notorious favelas (shantytowns), and shared on social media.
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Hundreds of people, many from destroyed shantytowns that had been mostly populated by Haitian immigrants, fled to the main government complex in Marsh Harbour and took up residence in its damaged offices.
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The makeshift settlements clogging the 214-mile road from Teknaf to Cox's Bazar are little more than shantytowns of tarps and blankets strung over ropes, meager protection against the season's torrential monsoon rains.
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He also partnered with the American professional skateboarder Tony Hawk to empower children through sports, and worked with the United Nations in Liberian shantytowns after the 2014 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
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The tourists were traveling toward the city center Wednesday in an Uber car when one passenger asked the driver to pull over near the Lins complex of shantytowns, Rio's police said in an statement.
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THE Mall del Sur, a new $200m shopping centre at the gateway to Lima's sprawling southern shantytowns, is crowded on Good Friday morning, even though its two anchor department stores are not yet operating.
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In the early nineteen-thirties, when the authorities allowed thousands of banks to collapse, the unemployment rate soared to almost twenty-five per cent, and soup kitchens and shantytowns sprang up across the country.
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China has injected huge sums into the redevelopment of shantytowns, boosting property demand as residents are encouraged to use cash compensation to buy a new home when their existing one is demolished, analysts said.
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An immigrant following other immigrants, Mr. Bloncourt showed people in the Pyrenees on their journeys to France and people in the ankle-deep mud of shantytowns in suburbs of Paris like Champigny-sur-Marne.
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The city has been working to improve watersheds in the Andes mountains, while residents in hillside shantytowns overlooking the city have been using nets to condense thick fog from the Pacific Ocean into drainage pipes.
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From the actions of the students of Soweto grew a vast campaign led by college students in the United States, who built shantytowns on campus quads, blockaded buildings and disrupted speeches by South African politicians.
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In Brazil, residents of shantytowns are exposed to Zika virus due to crowded living conditions, substandard sewage systems, and reliance on public water pumps that often are surrounded by pools of standing water (and mosquitoes).
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China's housing ministry said last week it would restrict subsidies to cities with hot property markets for new projects to tear down and redevelop shantytowns, which had led to a buying frenzy, especially in smaller cities.
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This piece, with its associations to shantytowns, urban decay, civil unrest, and armed conflict, forces a second look at the other works in the show and the implied violence of their jagged streaks and empty windows.
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Even a week after Dorian made landfall as a Category 5 storm, there were still dead bodies scattered around the Mudd and Pigeon Peas, shantytowns that are home to a community of mostly poor Haitian workers.
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These efforts were mostly calamitous for the contacted people, who tended to die out from disease, or to wind up living in frontier shantytowns, where the men often succumbed to alcoholism and the women to prostitution.
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Mr Sadr blames Mr Maliki and his comrades for corruption and a costly sectarian war, which drained Iraq of oil wealth that might otherwise have been used for developing shantytowns where millions of Mr Sadr's followers live.
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Mr. Guthrie ruminated about the Bonus Army, the name given to thousands of World War I veterans who established shantytowns in Washington, D.C., in 1932, to attempt to force the federal government to distribute payments promised to them.
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Kevin D. Harris, the director general of the Bahamas Information Center, told the New York Times that authorities were particularly concerned about the Abacos, since the islands are home to two shantytowns primarily populated by Haitian migrant workers.
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A large, pristine plexiglass cube appears to drift, a few feet off the ground, among the shacks: the titular ghost, plainly, which haunts the world's innumerable shantytowns with utopian longings but can do nothing to relieve their squalor.
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In the 1960s, there were more than 80 bidonvilles, or shantytowns, sheltering an estimated 30,000 guest workers from Spain, Portugal, North Africa and elsewhere, often organized by country or region; Algerians from Oran, for example, would live together.
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As much as 3 feet (1 meter) of rain was forecast to fall over hills in Haiti that are largely deforested and prone to flash floods and mudslides, threatening villages as well as shantytowns in the capital Port-au-Prince.
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The mercurial street gangs that have haunted Bogotá for a generation may not carry ideological pretensions, but they recruit from the improvised shantytowns that have sprouted up as refugees from the war-torn countryside settle along the city's ever-expanding periphery.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sweeping above sprawling slums in the upper reaches of one of Bogota's poorest hillside shantytowns, Yobana Bonella sits comfortably in a solar-powered gondola ferrying thousands of residents up to their homes, leaving almost no carbon footprint.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing ministry said on Thursday it will restrict subsidies to cities with hot property markets for new projects to tear down and redevelop shantytowns, as Beijing battles real estate bubbles and extends a multi-year crackdown on debt.
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The townships of Johannesburg; the musseques of Luanda, Angola; the shantytowns of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: The real action in African cities — many of them growing faster than ever — may be in the unplanned suburbs, still waiting for their close-up.
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In December, the Odebrecht-founded road consortium Rutas de Lima imposed new fees starting at 5 soles ($1.49) to use the only highway that connects populous shantytowns and working-class districts on the outskirts of northern Lima with the city's center.
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The shantytowns Mike refers to were outlawed by the Housing Act of 1949, but instead of good-faith efforts to combat poverty, many in the wave of housing projects to follow were merely segregation measures cast in brick and iron.
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She listed Iran's intensified systematic inequality in social classes, the decline of public trust and the increase in environmental crisis and "shantytowns" as well as high unemployment, challenges faced by minority groups and hard-liners' influence in the country's judiciary and security system.
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It started out as a "moon village", one of the many shantytowns that sprang up on the city's hills after the end of the Korean war, so called because the steep terrain did at least provide a good view of the moon.
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Since June, Basra residents have organized some of the largest street protests in years, demanding clean water, jobs and better infrastructure in a city that hosts a world-class stadium but where many residents live in crumbling dirt-brick houses in shantytowns.
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Tens of thousands of ecstatic people in this humid area of savanna and shantytowns packed the roads as the pope, riding in the front seat of a simple car, passed by on Friday morning after his plane arrived from the capital Bogota.
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Warehouses there were the testing grounds where storied mechanical performance-art pioneers Survival Research Labs reverse-engineered robots to blow each other up; unsanctioned venues such as Tire Beach hosted punk bands, costumed noisemakers, and the like; while vagrants formed floating shantytowns on the water.
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But in one of the world's most unequal cities, where apartheid's legacy separates mostly rich and white suburbs from largely poor and black shantytowns, the efforts to avoid Day Zero have involved cajoling a divided society into thinking of water as a common problem.
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And with other cities like Shanghai, with its shantytowns and illuminated, high-tech areas, it's probably safe to say that cityscapes imagined by the likes of Oshii, William Gibson, Hiromasa Ogura, Katsuhiro Otomo (director of Akira), and others are becoming standard, in a way.
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"Mozambique is a land of abundant natural and cultural riches, yet paradoxically, great numbers of its people live below the poverty level," Francis said in the stadium, in an area of the capital where many people live in shantytowns with houses of corrugated metal roofs.
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Credit...Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times CARACAS, Venezuela — Swaying to the D.J. and sipping cocktails on the open terrace of a mountain side bar, a party of private-school teenagers in Prada sneakers and Chanel bags looked down over the shantytowns of Venezuela's capital, Caracas, spread over the valley below.
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Key tenants at the R&D center - located on an island between shantytowns, highways, Rio's international airport, a sewage treatment plant and the postcard expanse of the city's Guanabara Bay - include oil service providers Schlumberger NV, Baker Hughes Inc and Halliburton Co. It is home to more than 50 companies and independent research labs.
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The relationship of these artists to the communities of color they depict aren't always clear, but in the caption of an untitled painting from 1935 by Rose Schneider, which represents a neighborhood of Japanese immigrants who lived alongside the canneries of San Diego Harbor, we learn that the artist was close with families who'd been forced to live in shantytowns due to discriminatory housing policies.
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A veteran British journalist, Christiansen enhances his lively account of this transformative era with a bibliography for further reading, as well as wonderful photographs and period illustrations throughout: a fancy-dress ball at the Tuileries palace; the shantytowns that once encircled Paris; four fiercely determined ladies riding the "bone-shaking" velocipede, precursor of the bicycle; a huge hot-air balloon whose function was to float mail out of the city under siege, and so on.
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