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The slums were cleared during redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s when the Westway Flyover and Trellick Tower were built.
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The rapid flow of people led to a fast-paced and uncontrolled urbanization ; an estimated 1. 5 million people were living in Saigon slums.
The rapid flow of people led to a fast-paced and uncontrolled urbanization ; an estimated 1. 5 million people were living in Saigon slums.
Most of the 772 convicts ( of whom 732 survived the voyage ) were petty thieves from the London slums.
At this time, slums were also beginning to form in the inner city, and those who could afford to leave, left for the suburbs and outer edges of the city.
The rapid flow of people led to a fast-paced and uncontrolled urbanization ; an estimated 1. 5 million people were living in Saigon slums, while many South Vietnamese elites and U. S. personnel lived in luxury.
It should be noted, however, that the people who suffered most from the medieval living conditions were often exiled to the suburbs by Haussmannization, since slums were cleared away and replaced with bourgeois apartments.
New structures were built along the outskirts that would become slums in the 19th century and later, torn down.
Never in Russia, never later in the worst slums of New York, were we to see such poverty as in the London of the 1880s.
People were rehoused from the slums of the East End.
These problems were exacerbated with the construction of St Katharine Docks ( 1827 ) and the central London railway termini ( 1840 – 1875 ) that caused the clearance of former slums and rookeries, with many of the displaced people moving into the area.
Attempts were made to stabilize the population by demolishing the so-called slums along River Street and build subsidized middle-income housing at Marineview Plaza, and in midtown, at Church Towers.
The original edition included 32 illustrations which were photographs of Welsh coal miners and of slums in the East End of London.
Following World War II, some 28 projected towns were designated as New Towns under the 1946 Act, and were developed partly to house the large numbers of people whose homes had been destroyed by bombing during the war and partly to move parts of the population out of ( mainly Victorian ) urban slums.
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.
Half the slums were randomly selected for opening branches of banks that provided microcredits while the remainder were not.
" The first Negroes who played what is called boogie-woogie, or house-rent music, and attracted attention in city slums where other Negroes held jam sessions, were from Texas.
The yards were considered unsanitary slums by the late 1800s, but were not finally vacated and demolished until the 1950s.
303, 141 people were living in 208 slums having 60, 527 households located in various parts of the city in 2001.
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Kingsway was a new road, cutting south from High Holborn through an area of cleared slums to Strand.
After World War II, in 1946, the government designated Hemel Hempstead as the site of one of its proposed New Towns designed to house the population displaced by the London Blitz, since slums and bombsites were being cleared in London.
The Glasgow Corporation made many efforts to improve the situation, most successfully with the City Improvement Trust, which cleared the slums of the old town, replacing them with what they thought of as a traditional high street, which remains an imposing townscape.
In the 1930s slums were cleared and the first council houses were built.
The town formerly contained a large number of 17th and 18th century buildings, but most were cleared away as ' slums ' in the 18th to 19th century.
Under Chamberlain, some of Birmingham's worst slums were cleared.
Most of " remainder Ladywood " ( and area now occupied by Park Central ) was redeveloped during the 1960s, with decaying terraced slums being cleared to make way for new low-rise housing and high-rise flats.
As part of the building programme that also cleared the inner city slums, from the 1950s onwards, historic Georgian Dublin came under concerted attack by the Irish Government's development policies.
From 1881 to 1886, associated with the construction of the new Marshalsea Road, the area was cleared of most of its old slums, although even in 1899 some remnants of the old rookery were still to be discovered between Red Cross Street and Borough High Street.
Previously he had bought and cleared some slums on the north side of St Patrick's Cathedral and in 1901 he created the public gardens known as " St. Patrick's Park ".
In 2006, the state government took action and cleared the area of slums.
Occupying an entire block cleared from slums, Lenhossék park is the latest recreational park in the area.
Large-scale development of the area started in 1931, when the Bristol Corporation built 1, 500 houses to the north of Southmead Road, partly to house families cleared from the slums of central Bristol, and partly to address the housing shortage at the time.
Some of these areas became slums or ' rookeries ', and were later cleared.
By the time the slums of the Gorbals had been cleared, the Palace had become a bingo hall.
There are modern council estates and tower blocks to the east of Leicester railway station, built during the 1970s on the site of cleared slums, but for the most part the area consists of privately owned and rented property, with some housing association properties.
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Although the frontier society was a thing of the past during Alger's career, Geck contends that " the idea of the frontier, even in urban slums, provides a kind of fairy tale orientation in which a Jack mentality can be both celebrated and critiqued ".
This was in sharp contrast to the slums that had developed in York and other cities during the previous century, the deprivation of which had been revealed in Seebohm Rowntrees ' report of 1901, entitled Poverty: a study of town life.
In addition, during the chaos that accompanied the rebellion, the inhabitants of the nearby slums looted many of the shops on O ’ Connell Street.
The Crazyladies of Pearl Street ( 2005 ) depicted the coming-of-age story of Jean-Luc LaPointe, a boy surviving with his mother and sister in the slums of Albany, New York in the years preceding and during World War II.
This river overflowed during the statewide floods of 2005 on July 26, 2005 and caused massive damage to slums and housing societies along its banks.
Stockfield Estate was one of Birmingham's many interwar housing estates, built by the local council during the 1920s and 1930s to rehouse people from inner-city slums.
The area was developed for council housing during the 1920s, with well over 1, 000 families moving to the area from dilapidated inner city slums.
The impoverished Larkin family lived in the slums of Liverpool during the early years of his life.
The government held a funeral for the deceased police officers on 5 February, during which the Portuguese citizens committed random acts of violence against the ethnic black majority living in Luanda's slums ( musseques ).
It is a myth that he moved to the new Cantril Farm housing estate from the inner city slums as a child during the 1960s and formed The Farm with the other residents of the estate who became part of it.
Although the McMillan Plan resulted in the demolition of some slums in the Federal Triangle area, substandard housing was a much larger problem in the city during the early 1900s, with large portions of the population living in so-called " alley dwellings.
The area has seen gradual development up until the main housing scheme was built in the 1950s during the huge building project to replace Glasgow's slums.
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