Sentences with word «shantytown»

Squatters in shantytowns in Africa and Asia now are linked by the Internet through a network of «Shack Dweller» associations, through which they trade information on common issues.

Instead of blinking back on land, though, she plunges through the lower clouds and into a floating shantytown of impoverished laborers and near - defeated rebels, revealing in one stroke a world she'll have to explore and a people she'll have to save.

Not far away, dusty - faced migrant workers and their families, as well as homeless people, live in vast shantytowns — rows of tents, and shopping carts, sofas and bicycles strewn about.

More than a million farmers joined massive shantytowns on the outskirts of Aleppo, Homs, Damascus and other cities in a futile attempt to find work and purpose.

As crops dry up and farmers migrate to urban shantytowns lacking clean water and basic sanitation, the burden is amplified.

Hints of architecture in abstractions by Barry Le Va from the 1980s or his Cleaved Wall from 1970 look stronger near global shantytowns by Amy Brener, sculpted high - rises by Nick Ralph, and New York souvenirs from Liene Bosquê.

We passed dilapidated shantytowns, shells of buildings, and sun - worn men hiking what appeared to be long distances along the side of the highway.

We visited Belén, a floating shantytown that is home to one of the most interesting markets in the whole of Peru, and got up close and personal to a myriad of plants, flowers, insects and animals of the Amazon during our 3 - day jungle tour with Heliconia.

Shantytowns teem with people living in tin - roofed shacks.

Indeed, in some African cities such as Addis Ababa and Ibadan, somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of the population will live in shantytown squalor.

This means that among the tarpaper shantytowns of Lima and São Paulo the interlocutor of theology is not some skeptical «modern man» who thinks religion stifles thought; rather, it is the faceless people whose lives as well as faith are threatened because tyrannies grounded in some religious or nonreligious mythology strangle them into an early death.

Attah played the role his Facebook page to congratulate Abrahm, whom he calls a «former comrade» on the streets of Ashiaman for achieving the enviable feat and bringing honour to the somewhat shantytown.

The close of 2011 also saw OWS protestors turn the Financial District into a third world shantytown before the city evicted them from Zuccotti Park.

In developing countries, extreme weather could drive even more people away from farms and into overcrowded shantytowns.

They knocked on doors throughout Brownsville, in Matamoros, and in the colonias, the squalid shantytowns that line the border.

Cenote Crustacea is across a small, dirt road from an abandoned shantytown that once housed workers building a nearby mega-resort.

It reduced production by 80 percent, driving people whose families had grown cacao for generations to abandon their farms and move to city shantytowns — effectively destroying in a few short years a vast archive of cacao - farming knowledge built over centuries.

The enormous rift between Gonzalo's comfortable household and Pedro's hard - scrabble life a few miles away in an illegal shantytown ultimately becomes impossible to bridge, once the bloody military coup of September 11, 1973 erupts.

Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.

US president expected to visit shantytown that inspired film as part of bridge - building tour of Latin America

He was orphaned at 7, grew up in the endless shantytowns around India's commercial capital, and now serves tea as a profession.

Born in a São Paulo shantytown, Ludo undergoes a remarkable transformation from one side of the city's impermeable social divide to the other.

Belizeans derisively dubbed a recently developed satellite shantytown in Belmopan as «Salvapan.»

Lima today retains much of its charm, despite its rather shapeless expanse of modern suburbs and dusty shantytowns that run for miles in each direction along the Panamerican Highway.

I prefer exploring back alleys, outdoor markets, rundown neighbourhoods (read shantytowns), and a lot of other places that don't sound very appealing to the the average holiday maker.

RE5 will receive a Kijuju - themed lounge where players can run around the African shantytown, possibly searching for viral marketing, and skins for their avatar.

In Far Cry 3 and Max Payne 3, for example, straight white protagonists explore shantytowns located in the global south populated by prostituted women.

Devoted PlayStation fans starting lining up 24 hours early in the hot California sun, setting up a Sony shantytown of sorts in front of L.A. - based restaurant Cuidad (great, friendly place, tell Annie we said hi!).

Every island shantytown, abandoned World War II gun battery and distant mountain is completely free to explore and teeming with wildlife to hunt, outposts to liberate and hidden caverns to discover.

The combination of nature, small shantytowns, and the tight twists in the mountains just made for some incredible visuals and races.

Painting: In Beacon, NY, I participated in Simon Draper's Habitat for Artists shantytown residency project, spending most Mondays working... read more... «Studio Update: Summer progress»

Powhida and Townsend describe Bellum as more earnest than their prior collaboration, Art Basel Miami Beach Hooverville, a hilarious Boschian rendering of the fair scene as a sordid shantytown.

Cruzvillegas offers a show with his trademark discarded materials, his use of which is inspired by improvised structures like shantytowns.

Nine ramshackle structures have been rigged by a team of musicians, artists, and inventors to create a musical shantytown.

In today's climate - change era, the only available housing such migrants are likely to find will be in vast and expanding shantytowns (or «informal settlements,» as they're euphemistically called), often located in floodplains and low - lying coastal areas exposed to storm surges and sea - level rise.

So I wonder why the world's greatest architects rush to build Manhattans in deserts without water, that are uninhabitable without air conditioning, that as Ouroussoff notes, could turn into «a miniaturized version of a city of glittering towers built for the global elite, barricaded against the urban poor and its makeshift shantytowns.»

The same goes for housing, where cobbled - together shantytowns make for dangerous, undignified places to live in many developing countries.

The Third World is a vast shantytown and in front of it is a grassy plain.

In urban shantytowns, people often lack running water or sewer service, and the stress of poverty and unemployment can lead to alcoholism, domestic violence and mental illness, Corvalán said.

Argentine artist duo Mondongo's 2013 mixed - media piece Me Conformaría Con Poder Dormir (Escultura), («I'd Be Okay with Just Being Able to Sleep [Sculpture]»), shows Snow White slumbering against the backdrop of a dilapidated shantytown.

Bringing Bibles, people meet in a little shack in a shantytown or out in a field or under a tree.

Soon, this generosity led to a «shantytown» growing up in the Strip District around St. Patrick's and Fr.