Sentence examples for as a slum from inspiring English sources

Today, Dharavi is as much a case study in industrial evolution as a slum.

Its depiction as a slum does little justice to the reality of Dharavi.

The Mahdi Army started as a slum movement energised by messianic zeal.

They live in Columbia Buildings, condemned by the council as a slum.

Despite its reputation as a slum, the tightly knit and entrepreneurial Somali community has become a trade hub.

In his teens, he moved to an inner-city housing block so notorious as a slum that it was later demolished.

Vatapu previously worked as a travel guide at a slum tourism enterprise in Dharavi, but broke away – wanting to show tourists "the real Dharavi" of entrepreneurship and enterprise.

Matias Echanove, an architect and urban planner, has long argued that Dharavi should not be dismissed as merely a slum, since it operates as a contained residential and commercial city.

Trash is piling up across Africa, especially in urban areas such as Kibera, a slum outside Nairobi, Kenya.

In the triangle marked by the Flores Cemetary, a hospital filled every weekend with gunshot wound victims and the San Lorenzo Football Club (supported by the new pope), is a slum as grim as any in South America.

The site of the Pompidou Center was originally razed in 1939 as part of a slum clearance project, for example.