Sentence examples for surrounding slums from inspiring English sources

Some came to marvel at the new steam-powered machinery, others to gasp at the horrendous working conditions and the open sewers that flowed through the surrounding slums.

Aptly named, the Hope Foundation School provides for around 400 children living in the surrounding slums of Tannery Road, on the outskirts of Bangalore.

Then, when they needed more space for their operations, they ejected the 2,000 residents of what is now the site of the British Library, greatly exacerbating the overcrowding in the surrounding slums, without so much as a multicoloured consultation leaflet in sight.

@joelkotkin on Twitter (Contributor) The triumphalism surrounding slums and megacities disturbs me.

By 1970, a combination of white flight and the destruction of surrounding slums had transformed the area into Cincinnati's most infamous ghetto.

Assassinations of community leaders, political action in surrounding slums and deadly terrorist bombs in commercial and administrative centers put Peru on edge.

Mostly uneducated and from the surrounding slum clusters, the women at the Soochna Ghar (Information Center) were discussing the water shortage facing an adjacent camp and how RTI could help.

The triumphalism surrounding the slums and megacities frankly disturbs me.

Through the bedroom window, viewers can see the surrounding Brooklyn slum and beyond that, the Manhattan skyline.

But many simply moved across the road to the new landfill, which is surrounded by slums and thousands of raggedy hovels that spill onto the Manila streets.

South of a park called Dreamland on an abandoned airfield surrounded by slums, Edward Suriadjaya is testing the Internet's powers of redemption.