A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security.

Jun 22, 2023 · In the 1940s, one bank of the Ilisos River in Athens was a large slum, with shacks set up there by refugees who arrived after the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe.

The slum in the photo is now a beautiful area of Athens. Built after Asia Minor disaster to accommodate thousands of refugees

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1]

Feb 4, 2017 · Massive slums have become major features of cities in many low-income and middle-income countries. Here, in the first in a Series of two papers, we discuss why slums are unhealthy places with especially high risks of infection and injury.

Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of …

It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors that underlie the formation of slums, as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It also evaluates the principal policy responses to …

Dec 8, 2022 · In this article, I read slum alongside two terms in Latin American Spanish, the Argentine villa miseria and the Peruvian barriada, in order to highlight the degree to which slum erases nuance, complexity, and difference. To be sure, these terms are by no means devoid of negative connotations.

In the meantime, however, Dourgouti evolved from a slum to a neighborhood with refugee housing complexes and, later on, apartment buildings of the Ministry of Welfare, maintaining the housing use, in a different form and under different conditions.

Oct 16, 2016 · Massive slums have become major features of cities in many low-income and middle-income countries. Here, in the first in a Series of two papers, we discuss why slums are unhealthy places with especially high risks of infection and injury.