Sentence examples for spread of slums from inspiring English sources
In both cities the spread of slums makes any kind of rational town planning impossible.
Across Kenya, at virtually every road junction, the commonest sign-posts are to churches, mostly of the home-grown African variety, promising solace, guidance and the hope of prosperity.Equally striking is the new urban sprawl and the spread of slums.
These problems included the spread of slums and poverty; the exploitation of labour; the breakdown of democratic government in the cities and states caused by the emergence of political organizations, or machines, allied with business interests; and a rapid movement toward financial and industrial concentration.
In the past, research has concentrated on spatio-temporal identification and spread of slums.
The spread of slum conditions northward from Mott Haven, Hunt's Point, and Morrisania threatened to turn the entire borough into a blighted area.
Considering the projected increases in the size and spread of slum populations across urban centres in developing countries such as Kenya (19– 21), it would be useful to establish how AIDS mortality estimates representing an urban setting in the broad sense compare with estimates from a purely urban-slum setting.
China has been remarkably successful in controlling the spread of urban slums: over the same period the proportion of city-dwellers living in slums fell by one-quarter to below 30%, according to a UN study.
From opulent sales pitches for After Eight mints or Smirnoff vodka, you'd turn to running spreads of Glasgow slums or the Biafra famine or Napalm-scalded child victims of the Vietnam war.
The spread of phones to slums and villages created a social revolution.That boom, though, contained the seeds of the scandal.
While the decline of industry in Rio helped cut down on the levels of heavy metals in the bay, the galloping spread of informal, unplanned "favela" slums and other settlements has helped turn much of the once-crystalline bay into a virtual open sewer.
In a general population survey in October 2009, cluster sampling was employed for selecting 20 localities spread over wide areas with the inclusion of slums proportionate to the size.
