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slum clearance area

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  • Slum — A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN HABITAT, is a run down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security . The term has traditionally referred to housing areas that were once… …   Wikipedia

  • slum — slummer, n. /slum/, n., v., slummed, slumming. n. 1. Often, slums. a thickly populated, run down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people. 2. any squalid, run down place to live. v.i. 3. to visit slums, esp. from curiosity. 4. to visit… …   Universalium

  • clearance — [[t]klɪ͟ərəns[/t]] clearances 1) N VAR Clearance is the removal of old buildings, trees, or other things that are not wanted from an area. ...a slum clearance operation in Nairobi... The UN pledged to help supervise the clearance of mines.… …   English dictionary

  • clearance — noun Date: 1540 1. an act or process of clearing: as a. the removal of buildings from an area (as a city slum) b. the act of clearing a ship at the customhouse; also the papers showing that a ship has cleared c. the offsetting of checks and other …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • slum — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ crowded, overcrowded, teeming ▪ sprawling, vast ▪ poor ▪ filthy ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • Chennai Metropolitan Area — Districts and Taluks of the metropolitan area The CMDA …   Wikipedia

  • Rookery (slum) — A rookery (also sometimes described as a stew) was the colloquial British English name historically given to a city slum or ghetto frequented by poor people, criminals and prostitutes. Such areas were often overcrowded, with poor quality housing… …   Wikipedia

  • Fernhill — This article is about the Scottish residential district. For the Welsh village, see Fernhill, Wales or the school Fernhill School Fernhill is a residential district in the Scottish town of Rutherglen in Lanarkshire. It is situated south of the… …   Wikipedia

  • urban renewal —    slum clearance    Not just a tidied up business district:     The abandoned warehouse was in a depressed area long overdue for urban renewal. (Bagley, 1982) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • Devil's Acre — The Devil s Acre with the Palace of Westminster in the background, in an 1872 illustration by Gustave Doré. The illustration shows the Devil s Acre some years into the slum clearance, with the courtyard of small low lying houses surrounded by… …   Wikipedia

  • Kibera — View of Kibera Kibera (Nubian: Forest or Jungle[1]) is a division of Nairobi Area, Kenya, and neighbourhood of the city of Nairobi, located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city centre …   Wikipedia

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