Jorge grew up in those slums, forced from his family home as a child.
Global slums are the other side of many global cities, especially in the global South.
The bigger and more powerful the global city, the bigger and more mobilized its slums.
Thousands more live in slums along the Naj river without the basic protection of the U.N.
The first scene shows the Bombay slums, and it's almost like Brigadoon with saris.
He improved the water supply, cleared slums, tackled pollution and planted thousands of trees.
Then torn from their land and their livestock, they were crammed into slums in nearby Diyarbakir.
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Love was inspired to write the music after visiting the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Its concrete tower blocks were crumbling, the peasant housing like slums, and the infrastructure chronically rundown.
Louis, one of the city's worst slums, and was raised by his grandparents, both blind.
People who know him say he has long visited working-class slums, true to his Jesuit origins.
The city is a mix of the poor and rich, of slums and luxury hotels.
Dr Mitra is most famous for hole-in-the-wall computers which he put in the slums of India.
The big question is, is the planet destined to become a planet of slums?
For example, more than half the people in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (slums) are black.
But an un-Riis-like consensus has formed about how best to address the new slums' problems.
"You're moving their life around, " he says, especially in the case of flats far from the slums.
This compares to thirty years ago when their parents lived in slums and could hardly afford bicycles.
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Thulani Madondo Thulani Madondo struggled as a child growing up in the slums of Kliptown, South Africa.
Those who see potential, not hopeless degradation, in the world's new slums do disagree on something important.
Happily, the debate about slums is no longer dominated by the project of replacing or eradicating them.
Development bankers like to talk about a project in the slums of Orangi in Pakistan's capital, Karachi.
He likes music and football, he likes to visit the slums and he is a very human guy.
Okello looked at the world of the slums and the working poor, and thought of the African jungle.
The musical style from the slums of Rio de Janeiro, called Baile Funk, is Wesley Pentz's latest obsession.
The children in the film come from Mumbai's slums, and their performances would put Hollywood moppets to shame.
We escape the slums and return to comfort, leaving Iqbal and thousands of other baalaks on the streets.
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Baghdad's main shopping streets remain eerily dark and shuttered, but stolen booty clutters the sidewalks of outlying slums.
In the best of circumstances, slums offer a road out of poverty for poor people around the world.
They spend a large chunk on the wages on paying rents, even though most end up in slums.
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