If the funding comes through, a multi-year clearance effort could begin this fall.
Beyond that, a vast 2005 slum clearance effort known as Operation Murambatsvina, or Get Rid of the Filth, drove 700,000 people in opposition bastions from their homes.
In 2005, Mr. Mugabe's government carried out a vast slum clearance effort called Operation Drive Out Trash in the opposition's urban bastions.
The UN estimates that mines are strewn across at least 30,000 (74,000 acres) hectares of land, far beyond the reach of current clearance efforts.
Unfortunately, this region, to the north-east of Kathmandu, was hard hit by the earthquake, and the road has only recently been reopened after mammoth clearance efforts.
Cowan is in Iraq as part of his group's efforts to drum up international support for mine clearance efforts, an issue he fears is suffering from donor fatigue despite the challenges posed by the new proliferation.
The marked rise in casualties caused by mines, which follows years of gains in global clearance efforts, has been blamed on semi-industrial production of the devices by Islamic State in Syria and Afghanistan.
In the exhibition at Columbia University, a page of the manual for the Title I program, which provided the federal money for most of Moses' housing projects, warns that "patching up hopelessly worn-out buildings" will only hinder large-scale slum clearance efforts.
Recent clearance efforts, including those over the past two days in the Mong Kok district, have been to enforce the court injunctions, won by businesses including the city's taxi drivers, angered over the effect on their businesses.
Chapter 1 tells the story of the founding and early years of ARCH, a fascinating and little-known "design activism" (18) organization established by a young white architect, C. Richard Hatch, in 1964 to assist Harlem residents to produce their own urban renewal plans to counter the slum clearance efforts of the Robert Moses years.
Pfeiffer Ridge had not burned in 100 years, and despite brush clearance efforts that Nunez commended as exceptional, the foliage was as dry as tinder.
