Sentences with phrase «urban slum dwellers»

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According to the UN, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums dropped 10 % to 37 % in the 15 years leading up to 2005.

A fundamental part of the artist's practice is influenced by the collaborative building process undertaken by dwellers of improvised urban settlements around the world — favelas, barrios, slums, or shanti towns — who rely on recycled and scavenged materials to ingeniously, but often precariously, respond to their rapidly changing living situations.

The most affected populations are the urban poor — i.e. slum dwellers in developing countries — who tend to live along river banks, on hillsides and slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on decertified land, in unstable structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and along waterfronts in coastal areas.