Slum

Life, Death and Hope in a Port Au Prince Undercity Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is a novel based on the residents of Annawadi, an overcrowded, squalid slum near Mumbai, India. Annawadi has a population of about 4,000, but it is very densely populated. It has a high unemployment rate, unsanitary conditions, little access to clean water or electricity, and an unfathomable level of poverty. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is written by…

the rich. The slums were located in hidden alleys close to the upper class; however, these areas were considered a completely separate territory, one that the upper class dared not explore. Since the slums were an area that the upper class did not use, they were considered inconveniences. Eventually, as poverty spread, many of the upper classes, instead of helping the lower class, moved out of the city and into the country to get away from the unsanitary conditions of the slums. In short, the…

Workers were sent to live in areas called slums. These slums had no running water or plumbing, so human waste was abundant upon the unpaved streets of the slums. The slums were mostly located near the factories where the laborers worked, so if the factories produced any type of pollution or toxic fumes the laborers had no place to go to escape it. The houses built in the slums were also built right next to one another in very packed spaces, so the workers had…

had some of the wealthiest areas next to the poorest slums. Her book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, focuses on the slum of Annawadi. This is a community of primarily trash-pickers and scavengers, with an extremely small percentage of residents with permanent jobs and a barely livable average income. These people live right under the noses of large and gorgeous hotels and airport buildings, watching rich westerners come and go. One of these slum dwellers, Mirchi, captures this stark contrast…

When Anand Patwardhan, popularly known for his socio-economic and human rights oriented films like Bombay Our City (1985), entered the realm of documentary filmmaking in 1971, he challenged the institutions dominating Indian documentary film production, distribution and censorship. Whereas when Paromita Vohra, acclaimed for her documentaries on urban life, popular culture and gender like Morality TV and Loving Jihad (2007), entered much later, in 1995 she had to deal with a completely different…

correspondence to a relevant movie or image they have seen. India, a South Asian country of one billion people, is generally either viewed as the colorful, gold filled realm shown in the Tom Cruise starrer, Mission Impossible, or as the poverty stricken, slum infested land depicted in Danny Boyles’s, Slumdog Millionaire. Although these two portrayals may seem drastic, they are not too far off the accuracy of what India is as a nation. No country wants to be left behind as the era of development…

The world is urbanising rapidly. In 2008, the number of people living in cities exceeded those in the country side. Urbanisation per se is often a positive development, as urban areas tend to be more productive than rural areas…yet rapid urbanisation can outreach the capacities of cities to absorb and cater for an ever growing number of inhabitants (Matuschke 2009). India is not an exception to the general urban scenario in the world. It is becoming more urban albeit regional variations across…

live in some of the cruelest environments. Slums happen to be settled in areas of the city that no one wants to occupy as it is beneath their standards. Slums are known to be overcrowded, inhospitable patches of terrain that are the most susceptible to fires, mudslides, and harm from earthquakes. The slum communities do not have adequate access to water, proper sewage disposal, maternal care, or even education. The conditions are so terrifying that slum dwellers do not even have a proper toilet…

1) Leading up to, and directly following the industrial boom we saw America’s greatest cities change in many way. These changes were particularly evident in the slums of New York. There were multiple legislative actions taken by both the federal and state governments to fix these low-income living areas. The very first notable legislative action was taken by the state of New York in 1867 and was entitled “ The First Tenement Act”. This act required windows in every rom and fire escapes for…

published in the Herald Sun on 6 August 2016, Knight contends in an old and downy tone to show the slums of Brazil. Mark Knight's intended audience seem to be comprised of people watching the Olympics and determining whether Brazil should be the Olympic host, and he develops a…