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Slums in major cities
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
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São Paulo, Brazil
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Paris, France
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Jakarta, Indonesia
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Cape Town, South Africa
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Mumbai, India
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Caracas, Venezuela
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Cairo, Egypt
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Manila, Philippines
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Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico
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Shanghai, China
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Yerevan, Armenia
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.[1] Although slums, especially in America, are usually located in urban areas, in other countries they can be located in suburban areas where housing quality is low and living conditions are poor.[2] While slums differ in size and other characteristics, most lack reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, law enforcement, and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings which, because of poor-quality construction and/or lack of basic maintenance, have deteriorated.[3]
Due to increasing urbanization of the general populace, slums became common in the 19th to late 20th centuries in the United States and Europe.[4][5] Slums are still predominantly found in urban regions of developing countries, but are also still found in developed economies.[6][7] The world's largest slum city is found in the Neza-Chalco-Ixtapaluca area, located in the State of Mexico.[8][9][10]
Slums form and grow in different parts of the world for many different reasons. Causes include rapid rural-to-urban migration, economic stagnation and depression, high unemployment, poverty, informal economy, forced or manipulated ghettoization, poor planning, politics, natural disasters, and social conflicts.[1][11][12] Strategies tried to reduce and transform slums in different countries, with varying degrees of success, include a combination of slum removal, slum relocation, slum upgrading, urban planning with citywide infrastructure development, and public housing.[13][14]
Contents
1 Etymology and nomenclature
2 History
3 Causes that create and expand slums
3.1 Rural–urban migration
3.2 Urbanization
3.3 Poor house planning
3.4 Colonialism and segregation
3.5 Poor infrastructure, social exclusion and economic stagnation
3.6 Informal economy
3.7 Poverty
3.8 Politics
3.9 Social conflicts
3.10 Natural disasters
4 Characteristics of slums
4.1 Location and growth
4.2 Insecure tenure
4.3 Substandard housing and overcrowding
4.4 Inadequate or no infrastructure
5 Problems
5.1 Vulnerability to natural and man-made hazards
5.2 Unemployment and informal economy
5.3 Violence
5.4 Infectious diseases and epidemics
5.5 Child malnutrition
5.6 Other non-communicable diseases
6 Countermeasures
6.1 Slum removal
6.2 Slum relocation
6.3 Slum upgrading
6.4 Urban infrastructure development and public housing
7 Prevalence
8 See also
8.1 Variations of impoverished settlements
9 References
10 Further reading
Etymology and nomenclature
It is thought[15] that slum is a British slang word from the East End of London meaning "room", which evolved to "back slum" around 1845 meaning 'back alley, street of poor people.'
Numerous other non English terms are often used interchangeably with slum: shanty town, favela, rookery, gecekondu, skid row, barrio, ghetto, bidonville, taudis, bandas de miseria, barrio marginal, morro, loteamento, barraca, musseque, tugurio, solares, mudun safi, kawasan kumuh, karyan, medina achouaia, brarek, ishash, galoos, tanake, baladi, trushchoby, chalis, katras, zopadpattis, basti, estero, looban, dagatan, umjondolo, watta, udukku, and chereka bete.[