The city has pushed out old encampments of gypsies, transvestites and minorities.
"WE WON'T GO", proclaims a banner at Dale Farm, one of the largest encampments of gypsies and travellers in England.
Soldiers and emergency workers picked through the rubble of nearly 40 smoldering buildings and the abandoned encampments of antigovernment protesters.
As a commuter, I encountered encampments of homeless people setting up their cardboard shelters around the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
For their part, owners have had to cope with encampments of homeless people, drug trafficking and vandalism in their spaces.
Finally, when push came to shove, 150 !Kung began trekking to the encampments of the people they'd been remembering.
Encampments of homeless can be found from downtown to West Hollywood, from the streets of Brentwood to the beaches of Venice.
In the coastal southwest, encampments of up to 300 tents were found, whereas in northern Mauritania only groups of a few tents generally moved together.
A decade or so ago, the area was made up of half-abandoned warehouses and makeshift art spaces, mere blocks from the homeless encampments of Skid Row.
All the cities of Bosnia are becoming encampments of rural refugees, whose habits and ways of thinking seem alien to Sarajevans.
