:" I am particularly troubled with the provisions that restrict the use of eminent domain for redevelopment purposes to areas defined as slum or blighted.

" An 1812 English dictionary defined slum to mean " a room ".

A footnote defined slum to mean " low, unfrequent parts of the town ".

However, he was shocked by the poverty and deprivation he saw while working with slum children.

Other controversial schemes proposed by his government were a massive freeway system that was planned to be driven through the hearts of historic inner-city suburbs including Glebe and Newtown and an equally ambitious scheme of ' slum clearance ' that would have brought about the wholescale destruction of the historic areas of Woolloomooloo and The Rocks.

* Measuring social capital in a Philippine slum article by Petr Matous and Kazumasa Ozawa in the Journal of Field Methods about social capital measurement methodology with a focus on socio-economically deprived contexts

Directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments.

The effect was precipitate: a population of 6, 000 people in 1840 was increased to 168, 000 by 1910 ; and save for the green spaces of Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common and some smaller isolated pockets, all other farmland was built over, with, from north to south, industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings ( much of which remain ), slum housing for workers, especially north of the main east – west railway, and gradually more genteel residential terraced housing further south.

Before this, Attlee's political views had been conservative, but he was shocked by the poverty and deprivation he saw while working with slum children, and this caused him to become a socialist.

In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson's embargo crippled local mercantile trade, and by the Civil War, Stage Neck had deteriorated into a ramshackle slum.

All of Belfast's flat complexes were built by Belfast Corporation as part of Belfast slum clearances and to solve the housing problem.

The location was formerly called Anapra, New Mexico, a name shared by its sister city, a slum area in Mexico.

Agreeing with Jane Addams, Rankin argued that slum conditions were worsened by women's inability to vote.

A slum clearance scheme was produced by the council, whereby many areas were completely demolished and the residents were re-housed in new estates, that sprawled above the town on the valley slopes.

At first he tried to imitate Al Jolson by smearing his face with black paint, but later separated himself to form his own identity as an impoverished slum dweller with baggy pants, a rope for a belt, and a distinctive mustache.

This idea is reflected in Lewis Jacobs ' 1939 survey, where he writes: " Concentrated largely in poorer shopping districts and slum neighborhoods, nickelodeons were disdained by the well-to-do.

In 1955, after the adoption of the first ' post-war slum clearance plan ', new housing estates were built to replace the slums and, gradually, redundant textile mills were occupied by firms in the various light industries.

Most housing communities were developed from the 1930s onward and initial public housing was largely slum clearance, with the requirement insisted upon by private builders that for every unit of public housing constructed, a unit of private housing would be demolished.

These projects were, nevertheless, accompanied by similar ambitions for Riddarholmen, where eventually several new palaces would be built, and for the ridges surrounding the city, where Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna had the medieval slum replaced by a more representative Baroque city.

It was also part of a slum clearance measure, to push impoverished workers out of the city centre although the street's construction was stalled by legislation requiring rehousing some of these displaced residents, overcrowding persisted.

Improvement of the slum housing conditions, amongst the worst in the capital, was first undertaken by St Pancras Council in 1906 at Goldington Buildings, at the junction of Pancras Road and Royal College Street, and continued on a larger scale by the St Pancras House Improvement Society ( subsequently the St Pancras and Humanist Housing Association, the present owner of Goldington Buildings ) which was established in 1924.

The book contains technological developments that Gibbons thought might have been invented by then, such as TV phones and air – taxis and also refers to future social / demographic changes, such as the degradation of Mayfair into a slum district.

As with many modern cities the business district occupied the city center and was surrounded by slum and blighted neighborhoods, which were further surrounded by workingmens ' homes and the early forms of the modern suburbs.

This program began the large public housing projects that later became one of the hallmarks of urban renewal in the United States: it provided funding to local governments to build new public housing, but required that slum housing be demolished prior to any construction.

The essence of the plan surrounded the United States Capitol with monumental government buildings to replace " notorious slum communities ".

In a letter to the United Nations, the Israeli government stated that the reason for the demolition was that the Jordanian government had converted the neighborhood into a slum area.

First, a Living Newspaper ’ s content always centered on some current event or issue affecting the United States working class at large – whether it be the spread of syphilis, slum housing conditions, or the search for affordable electrical power.

* Every third person will be a slum dweller within 30 years, UN agency warns ; John Vidal ; The Guardian ; October 4, 2003.

This argument hinges on an unrealized design Thomson prepared in 1868 for the Glasgow City Improvement Trust, an agency of the Town Council given the task of redeveloping a large area of slum housing centred on the medieval Old Town.

The agency, led by John Ihlder, was an early example of a public housing agency, and was responsible for demolishing slum housing and building new units that were affordable, modern, and sanitary.

Plaintiffs argued that this property was not slum housing and that it could not be taken for a project under the management of a private agency to be redeveloped for private use simply to make the community more attractive overall.

Sir -- Your editorial, `` Housing Speedup '', is certainly not the answer to our slum problems.

Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).

The aim is to allow the very rich to come and slum it in a fashionable district, Montmartre.

The protagonist in the story is Nell, a thete ( or person without a tribe ; equivalent to the lowest working class ) living in the Leased Territories, a lowland slum belt on the artificial, diamondoid island of New Chusan, located offshore from the mouth of the Yangtze River, northwest of Shanghai.

This is evident from the contrast between poor slum areas and elite residential areas with imperious mansions, often built within a few miles of one another.

The story begins in a courtroom where an 18-year-old boy ( presented as a member of an unspecified minority group, though several interpretations of the film concluded he is Puerto Rican ) from a New York city slum, is on trial for allegedly stabbing his father to death.

His vote annoys the other jurors, especially Juror 7 ( Jack Warden ), who has tickets to a baseball game that evening ; and Juror 10 ( Ed Begley ), who believes that everyone from slum backgrounds is evil.

He is embroiled in a feud with Zasa, who has involved the Corleone family in major drug trafficking and turned Little Italy into a slum.

She is obsessed with demonstrating that slum life is far below her station.

However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising.

The origin of the word slum is thought to be the Irish phrase S lom é ( pron.

By contrast, identification of an area as a slum is based solely on socio-economic criteria, not on racial, ethnic, or religious criteria.

There is a growing movement to demand a global ban of ' slum clearance programmes ' and other forms of mass evictions.

Equally, an interstellar refugee camp turned slum of dubious reputation called the Dipple provides the starting point for a number of planet stories, as the number of desperate young people seeking any escape from its poverty is high.

This one beside it is a slum.

He manipulates Piers into relocating the entire translation staff to an office park in the East German slum where the autobahn is planned to be built, causing the translators to threaten to strike, a threat they carry out when they discover the office park is actually a scale model.

However, King George III rejected the name, St Giles also being the patron saint of lepers and having association with an edge-of-city slum area of London. The street is named after King George's two eldest sons, the Prince George, Duke of Rothesay ( later King George IV ) and the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.

The first assignment he attaches himself to is an attempted separatist secession by followers of the Transient movement ( a group of people who use genetic body modification based on alien DNA to become a completely different species, forced to live in the Angels 8 slum district ) led by Fred Christ, a former rock group manager and impresario similar to Malcolm McLaren.

Fearing the high mortality rate among apprentice sweeps ( who are forced to climb inside chimneys and remove the soot by hand ), Sharpe flees to the Rookery of St Giles ( a form of slum ), and is taken in by prostitute ( and later bar-owner ) Maggie Joyce.

In addition the role of women is a key theme, with all female characters in one way or another revealing their purpose in the slum.