Slums

A slum is usually a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons. Although slums, especially in America, are usually located in urban areas, in other countries they can be located in suburban areas where housing quality is low and living conditions are poor. While slums differ in size and other characteristics, most lack reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, law enforcement, and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings which, because of …

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University of Kent · 1 January 2018 English

This essay gives you an introductory view of the topic of war and social change on the British Home Front by using the changing position of women as a case …

hanging around for work that don’t come – no more slums neither – no more filthy, dirty back streets – no


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

afterward for showing a g: few photographs of slums to foreigners. Sentenced to 10 years. '•Then Niklus


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

shortly afterward for showing a few photographs of slums to foreigners. Sentenced to 10 years. When Niklus


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file containing documents relating to dissent in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include analysis of the dissident journal Chronicle of Current Events, which had been disrupted …

r d for showing a few p h o t o g r a p h s of slums to f o r e i g n e r s . S e n t e n c e d to 10


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

shortly afterward for showing a few photographs of slums to foreigners. Sentenced to 10 years. When Niklus


The National Archives · 1 January 1981 German

A file of correspondence and reports concerning sponsored visits from East Germany. The documents cover arrangements for visits to Britain by two journalists from East Germany, Günter Siemund from Horizont …

auf den Karten nicht fixiert, wohl • um die Slums zu überwinden. Oer schaft zu erhalten. Von den


The National Archives · 1 January 1981 English

first sentence in 1950s for showing photographs of slums to foreigners; one of 45 signatories of document


The National Archives · 1 January 1981 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the internal situation in East Germany. The documents include a despatch describing living standards and morale in East Germany; a West German paper …

uniform and drab housing schemes, and as many slums. There are comparatively few parks and gardens


The National Archives · 1 January 1979 German

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the control of information in East Germany. Subjects covered in the file include new East German measures against Western media correspondents; the ways …

Sowjetunion und andere so-A Es gibt dort keine Slums oder men. Sie erhoben die provokato- , H zialistisc^if


The National Archives · 1 January 1977 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the internal political situation in West Berlin. The documents cover British support for the assumption of the presidency of the West German Bundesrat …

Stobbe had seen how some districts had ended up as slums "into which one no longer ventured". This had filled


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