List of slums

A Villa Miseria in Argentina

A favela in Brazil

This is a list of slums. 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. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005.^[1] However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums^[2] and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.^[3]

Africa[]

Egypt[]

Ezbet el-Haggana – a slum in Cairo
Manshiyat Naser – slum in Cairo

Ghana[]

Taxi drivers waiting for fares near the beachfront slum in Accra's Jamestown

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Ashiaman^[5]
Fadama^[6]
Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra
Kojokrom
New Takoradi
Suame Magazine
Nima
Agbogbloshie

Kenya[]

A view of Kibera

Dandora
^[7]
Gatwekera
Huruma
Kambi Muru
Kangemi
Kawangware
Kiambiu
Kibera (Kibera has been described as the largest slum in Kenya)
Kichinjio
Kisumu Ndogo
Korogocho
Laini Saba
Lindi
Majengo, Nairobi
Makongeni
Mashimoni
Matopeni
Mathare
Mathare Valley
Mugumoini
Mukuru kwa Njenga
Mukuru slums
Nyalenda
Pumwani
Raila
Sarang'ombe
Shilanga
Siranga
Soweto East
Soweto West
^[8]
Viwandani (Kenya)^[9]

Liberia[]

Mauritania[]

Namibia[]

Freedomland
Okuryangava
Otjomuise
Samuel Maherero

Nigeria[]

Agege
Ajegunle
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Badia
Bariga
Bodija
Ilaje
Iwaya^[11]
Makoko^[11]
Mushin^[12]
Somolu
Idikan
Sasa

South Africa[]

Asia[]

Bangladesh[]

Begun Bari^[14]
Bhola (Dhaka North)
City Palli (Dhaka South)
Driver Colony (Dhaka South)
Duaripara (Dhaka North)
Kawnia
Korail slum (Dhaka North)
Lalbagh (Slum)|Lalbagh
Mach Colony
Mannan (Dhaka South)
Mohammadpur (Slum)|Mohammadpur
Molla (Dhaka North)
Monsur Beel / Nama Para
Mymensingh (Slum)|Mymensingh
Nubur (Dhaka South)
Power House (Dhaka South)
Pura (Dhaka South)
Rail Line Slums (most of the largest rail lines in Bangladesh have slums)

India[]

Slum improvement in Delhi, 1983

Banganga
Baiganwadi, Mumbai
Chandmari
Dharavi, Mumbai
Kathputhli slum
Tikia Para

Indonesia[]

About half of each of all cities in Indonesia compromises slums.^{[citation needed]}

Pakistan[]

A slum in Karachi

Parts of Machar Colony^[15]

Previous Slums in Pakistan[]

Orangi, previously but status changed to municipality from 2018 onward.

South Korea[]

Guryong Village

Sri Lanka[]

Maligawatte
(Usaui Walta)

Australia[]

Melbourne[]

Little Lon district – In the nineteenth century the area consisted of timber and brick cottages, shops and small factories and was home to an ethnically diverse and generally poor population. Today there are few reminders of the area's former notoriety.

Europe[]

The following are former slum areas that have subsequently been either gradually developed or abruptly cleared and demolished.

Bulgaria[]

кв. Факултета/kv. Fakulteta, Sofia, Bulgaria.

кв. Столипиново, Шекер махала, Аджисан махала, Арман махала - гр. Пловдив/ kv. Stolipinovo, Sheker mahala, Adjisan mahala, Arman mahala - Plovdiv city

Greece[]

Agia Kyriaki, Acharnes, Attica

Ano Liosia, West Attica

Dendropotamos, Thessaloniki

Nea zoi, Aspropyrgos, Attica

Malta[]

Model of Valletta's Manderaggio before demolition

The Manderaggio, an area in Valletta that was a slum area from the 16th to 20th centuries. It was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by housing estates.

Serbia[]

A living area at the former Cardboard city

Cardboard city (Serbian: Картон сити, romanized: Karton siti) in Belgrade, depopulated and demolished starting on 31 August 2009, following four years of unsuccessful attempts.

Turkey[]

A Gecekondu in Istanbul

Sultanbeyli, Istanbul
Çinçin, one of the most popular Turkish gecekondu (slum) located in Ankara
Hacıhüsrev, largest slum of İstanbul
Hürriyet mahallesi, Adana
Kadifekale, Izmir
Horozköy, Manisa

Middle East[]

Yemen[]

Mahwa Aser

North America[]

Cité Soleil, 2002

Housing development at Iztapalapa

A slum in the hillside at Ecatepec, Mexico

Haiti[]

Cité Soleil

Jamaica[]

Trenchtown

Mexico[]

Neza-Chalco-Ixta in Mexico City, is a Ciudad Perdida, rated as the world's largest mega-slum in 2006. The area extends towards the municipalities of Chimalhuacan, Los Reyes to the west of Ixtapaluca and South of Neza and Ecatepec de Morelos north of Neza in the metropolitan area periphery and with Santa Marta Acatitla in the Distrito Federal's borough of Iztapalapa.

Puerto Rico[]

La Perla

South America[]

Argentina[]

Villa 31 in Buenos Aires

In Buenos Aires:

Villa 31

Brazil[]

Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas.

Vila Parisi

Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro. Although favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil, many of the more famous ones exist in Rio — a widely photographed city

Colombia[]

Ciudad Bolivar

Ciudad Bolívar (Bogotá)

Peru[]

Pueblos jóvenes is the nickname given to the vast shanty towns that surround Lima and other cities of Peru. Many of these towns have developed into significant districts in Lima such as Villa El Salvador and Comas District, Lima.

Venezuela[]

Petare slum in Caracas

References[]

^ United Nations, 2007. The Millennium Development Goals Report. p. 26
^ "Review of Mike Davis' 'Planet of Slums'". The Struggle for the City. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ Slum Dwellers to double by 2030 Archived 2013-03-17 at the Wayback Machine UN-HABITAT report, April 2007.
^ "Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ "The Challenge of Slums". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ "Globalizing City". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ "Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ "UN-Habitat and the Kenya slum upgrading programme". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ "Mapping for better healthcare in Nairobi's slums". CIMSpatial group at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), University of Warwick, UK. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ "Live Working Or Die Fighting". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Adapting Cities to Climate Change". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ "Global Politics in a Changing World". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ "South Africa's Magnifying Glass". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ Ramesh, Randeep (22 December 2006). "Hidden cost of 'cheap chic'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
^ "Demolishing Slums". The Nation. 2015-07-12. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
^ [1] "What Is Urban Upgrading?" MIT. Accessed 3 December 2010

External links[]

Media related to Slums at Wikimedia Commons

This article includes a city-related list of lists.

[1] United Nations, 2007. The Millennium Development Goals Report. p. 26

[2] "Review of Mike Davis' 'Planet of Slums'". The Struggle for the City. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[3] Slum Dwellers to double by 2030 Archived 2013-03-17 at the Wayback Machine UN-HABITAT report, April 2007.

[4] "Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[5] "The Challenge of Slums". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[6] "Globalizing City". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[7] "Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[8] "UN-Habitat and the Kenya slum upgrading programme". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[9] "Mapping for better healthcare in Nairobi's slums". CIMSpatial group at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), University of Warwick, UK. Retrieved 10 July 2018.

[10] "Live Working Or Die Fighting". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[Dodman;etal-11] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Adapting Cities to Climate Change". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[12] "Global Politics in a Changing World". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[13] "South Africa's Magnifying Glass". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[14] Ramesh, Randeep (22 December 2006). "Hidden cost of 'cheap chic'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-11-24.

[:0-15] "Demolishing Slums". The Nation. 2015-07-12. Retrieved 2018-07-10.

[MIT-16] [1] "What Is Urban Upgrading?" MIT. Accessed 3 December 2010

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