Slum

The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast the main characteristics of the urbanization process in the First and Third worlds. I will explain some basic definition of urbanization and a background of the first world and third world and then analyze them by presenting some specific characteristics. Understand the different land-use models and main characteristics of urbanization help to plan and provide facilities for the needs of increasing urban populations more easily. Urbanization is…

In “Flavio’s Home” the home life is beyond awful. The lives of everyone in the slums have been just poor and miserable, they have no money and no clean supplies to live on. In this essay I will tell you about the living and health situations, water and food supply, and how the slums have changed. It is a shame because these people live like this day in and day out for their whole lives and it never changes. “I’ve never lost my fierce grudge against poverty. It is the most savage of all human…

the other hand it is also true that for the low income people, Dhaka has not been able to provide a healthy living space. Almost the people from low income class choose slums as their households. There are many slums in Dhaka and the living conditions in these slums are very unhealthy. The largest slum in Dhaka is the karail slum which is the home t6 16,000 families which is around 500,000 people roughly (Kabir, 2014). In most of the houses there is shortage of water and electricity. The…

Favela: in Brazil, an urban slum or ghetto; illegal squatter settlement. This is how the film Favela Rising begins. It begins by describing what a favela is, which I am glad it does because this is a term that I have never heard of before. This film discusses what life is like in Brazil and goes through different slums in Brazil. It was made to inform and show people what the slums were like in Brazil and to give the audience a glimpse of what life is like for them. The target audience is…

economic status at the time led to many blacks being crowded into segregated urban slums, due to a combination of economics, migration patterns from the south, and racist practices like redlining. When these slums began to be cleared black residents were displaced at high rates, leaving many with few options in terms of housing. Ultimately “they had the choice of either moving into public housing projects or to other slum areas, where they paid higher rents because the overall supply of low rent…

movie portrays different aspects of life and love in the culture and what it means to be a “slumdog.” Set in Mumbai, the movie does not aestheticize or romanticize the slums and the way people live there. Through a series of shots of the main characters running through the filthy streets, the audience gets an accurate depiction of the slums of Mumbai. In Slumdog Millionaire, the plot allows the audience a more comprehensive view into Indian culture. There are moments in Jamal’s life that show…

fulfilled the large requirement for cheap labor. The populations in industrial cities was never more concentrated, which created a serious problem --- housing. Low-income working class gathered in cheap tenement houses and these areas are called “the slums”[ Von Hoffman, Alexander. The Origins of American Housing Reform. 2002,. Accessed August 16, 2016. https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/von_hoffman_w98-2.pdf.…

lived in Dandora slums in a single room, which was both the living room and my parents’ bedroom with a curtain separating the two. My two siblings and I shared a small bedroom, which we also used as a kitchen. While in Dandora, we shared a community bathroom different households in the compound. A few years later, we moved from Dandora slums to Kariobangi South slums, a low-income residential estate in northeastern Nairobi, Kenya. In Kariobangi South, although we still lived in the slums our…

City of God tells the story of Rocket, a young Brazilian boy who aspires to become a photographer and Lil Ze, a gangster who grew up with Rocket. The film details their lives and the ensuing gang war within the slum known as Cidade de Deus. The film has garnered a massive reputation as one the premier foreign films of the last twenty years. Rocket’s character type is the main protagonist while Lil Ze portrays the film’s main antagonist. The juxtaposition of personalities Rocket and Lil Ze have…

peoples hold legitimate versus illegitimate rights to water. It will be argued that these longstanding views on the legitimacy of water access, combined with the economic liberalization of Mumbai that has seen the middle class attempt to ‘reclaim’ slums from the poor, serve to perpetuate inequality and reinforce…