Sentences with phrase «shanty towns»

This view holds that without good title, lenders will not be willing to make loans against the land or shanty as security.13 Of note is that De Soto's analysis is based on shanty towns in Peru where populations are high and various levels of commercial activity are common place, despite formal title to land.

Other shots include Buckingham Palace and the iconic Gherkin building as shanty towns surrounded and inhabited by eco-refugees, and the Mall as an avenue of wind turbines (quite elegant looking).

Shanty towns across Mombasa, where poor, marginalized workers are desperate for work, are hotspots for such industrial activity.

They warn of inevitable hard knocks to come, even as ever more people crowd into harm's way, whether in the instant pop - up shanty towns of cities sitting on unstable faults or the spreading sprawl of the Southwest, where megadrought may have been the norm, and 20th - century moisture the anomaly.

Each part of the island from the snowy mountains, the shanty towns, the beaches, tombs, and undiscovered forests all strike a graphic portrayal of a lost island as exactly as you would imagine it to be.

This makes for some luscious outside environments teaming with wildlife offset by the harsh ramshackle shanty towns that make up the majority of the human cities.

I remember watching the movie Water World with my dad as a kid and thinking about how I wish I could travel the sea and explore ruins, shanty towns on the water, and look for land that might be undiscovered.

Beautifully drawn, from rugged mountain top to river basin, yet periodically scarred by shanty towns and militia outposts, the environment is a sight to behold.

Phuket is made up largely of sturdy, high rise concrete hotels which survived the hit more than the smaller shanty towns on the coast.

Visit the favelas (shanty towns) around the city, home to local culture.

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a mix of skyscrapers and shanty towns, narrow alleyways and major shopping thor...

Shanty towns can be found in on the outskirts of many large cities especially in LEDCs.

The heroic tale here is Biko «s - his strength in pulling himself up from the systematic degradation of the black shanty towns, his articulateness in defining and presenting his cause, his courage in defying the government «s oppressive banning laws.

Somali bandit bosses roll up into poverty - stricken shanty towns waving AK - 47s.

I flew to Soweto and researched home - grown charities in the informal settlements and shanty towns.

Since employment levels are associated with levels of financial activity and maturation of infrastructure, it isn't surprising that cities which have many shanty towns have elevated levels of unemployment.

Most people think that Rio de Janeiro's shanty towns are fit only for the bulldozer.

Without strong laws, New York could see shanty towns similar to the Great Depression's Hooverville, protesters say.

Hailing from one of Monrovia's shanty towns, his «soccer talent took him from a slum surrounded by swamps in Liberia to superstardom.»

Although not to Brazilian favela levels, villas miserias, or shanty towns, sprawl on the outskirts of most large cities.

Ms Flint thinks these people should be living in shanty towns or living down under a bridge.

FRIED SCALLOPS Sirs: As one very concerned about the increasing number of shanty towns that are making their dingy appearance along most of our country's once - beautiful shores, it did my morale good to read Pamela Knight's article on the work Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin is doing in California (Shelters on a Scalloped Shore, March 28).

Running abortion clinics in slums, shanty towns and the bush will harm or kill women as well as killing babies.»

Mass poverty became common and many workers lost their jobs and were forced to live in shanty towns.

The working women who clean their homes and mind their kids live in a shanty town outside the gated community.

You shanty town of heaven is bullsh t. Is the devil good because he punishes bad men?

And thus began a journey which included a retreat in a desert, some work as a catechist, military service and then, back in Spain, an encounter with people living in a shanty town.

In a South African shanty town, a black preacher might see priest and Levite as Western nations that soft - pedal sanctions against the apartheid government in Pretoria.

The alien race in District 9 is segregated in shanty town ghettos, a thinly veiled allegory of the South African apartheid Blomkamp witnessed in his childhood.

Back in the shanty town, the moviegoer sees a class struggle in the making when they first meet the local residents.

Hennah estimates that «maybe a quarter» of the movie takes place here, a «shanty town» populated by «aliens of all different sorts».

An early chase in the first film through a hillside shanty town, one entirely typical of the series's distinct pleasures, finds Chan holding on to the side of a double - decker bus as it barrels down a precariously winding road, forced to skip across the rooftops of oncoming traffic while fending off the villains trying to kick him off from inside.

So after a chat with his mum, the newly - dubbed Coriolanus is convinced to run for consul, which he does reluctantly, and wins — however he ultimately loses because the fifteen / twenty people in a shanty town get a sudden change of heart.

Using the images, Google map and Mind Movie pupils will have a creative look at shanty town life.

The atlas also includes an up - to - date glossary full of words and terms such as apartheid, cash crop, deforestation, free market, guerilla, petrochemical, sanction, and shanty town.

This booklet allows students to investigate settlements in LEDCs, why people move to the towns and cities, choosing a place to live when there and how to improve a shanty town

Over the summer, the new principal tore down what he called the «shanty town»; relocated the Title I, special education, and English as a second language teachers and aides; and bought shelving, computers, and kid - size furniture for the library.

Compared to the Apple Appstore the Android Market looks like a 3rd world shanty town bazaar.

One end is a shanty town — the only «lucky» individuals those perched on the edge of the settlement against the road where there still remain the giant eucalyptus trees of yesteryear.

Some tour companies offer shanty town tours, but you should never go to these locations alone.

In these vile conditions they barely manage to eke out an existence, but have nonetheless managed to transform their surroundings into a shanty town where they may shelter.

The fidelity of the artwork is eye - watering in places; a narrow alley in a shanty town can be just as breathtaking in its detail as the vertiginous, aerial establishing shot that runs under the credits.

During one mission in Far Cry 3 the players watch from the sidelines as a pimp beats up a female prostitute of color in a shanty town.

While Empire City had 3 islands that all looked the same, New Marais has 2 islands that has a city area, a run - down shanty town area, an industrial sector, and possibly my favorite is Flood City where the entire area has been flooded which makes for some good platforming fun.

Once the gameplay ball got rolling, Naughty Dog once again floored the audience with a stellar segment showing Drake and Sully trying to escape a heavily militarized vehicle persuing them through a sort of shanty town.

This episode takes place right after the infamous Shanty Town, and we are now crossing the bridge and going through the temple that

Also this fall, The Huntington acquired the following works of American art by gift and purchase: Cypress Tree, Point Lobos (ca. 1930), a colored crayon drawing on paper by Henrietta Shore (1880 — 1963); Mask of Elizabeth Laroque (1926), a terracotta by Jo Davidson (18830 - 1952) to complement the sculpture of the subject already in The Huntington's collections; and Shanty Town (1935), a woodcut by African - American artist Hale Woodruff (1900 — 1980), purchased with funds provided by longtime Huntington donors Hannah and Russel Kully.

Weather produced in your back yard, community green or the deserts of Africa or the roofs of shanty town.

Or even a shanty town?

Homeless house - carts are an intriguing temporary solution to getting people back on their feet, but tiny house communities for the homeless, I think, would turn into a tragic shanty town in a big hurry.