Sentence examples for slum into from inspiring English sources

It is these traders who have changed El Alto from a slum into Bolivia's throbbing hub of street commerce.

The ambition is to transform the slum into another district, integrated into the city, with proper transportation connections and services.

He has erected religious shrines and made the place, once a littered slum, into a site for performances of dance and music.

Lena Younger was, in fact, an archetypal Richards character, a woman who bravely moves from a slum into a lily white community in Chicago.

Other times I imagined the lives of the 19th-century tenement dwellers who lived on my side of the street during the years when the neighborhood was being transformed from an industrial area and slum into an upscale residential district.

The protesters had worked out a plan with Kinshasa's municipal government to send emissaries from a slum into downtown Kinshasa to deliver a letter to the election commission calling for a clear path forward.

Neuwirth bristles at the idea of deliberately transforming slums into models of urban development.

Covers the skyscraper boom of the 1920's and 30's and the transformation of waterfront slums into Tudor City.

In Sumawi in southern Iraq, we drove through the pitiful concrete slums into which the Marsh Arabs have been "relocated".

India's rapid development has turned former slums into sought-after addresses, and rising land values led many brothel owners to sell out.

Governments were determined to shift people out of slums into healthy new towns in the countryside, and to divert growth around the regions.