Sentences with phrase «urban squalor»

A collage of urban squalor, gleaming affluence, abject poverty, exotic consumerism and astounding pollution, its a city that assaults the senses.

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For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

But with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the urban setting became known as the site of disease, pollution, crime, squalor and ugliness.

There are still many countries in Africa where infrastructure and development is limited to the capital and a few urban centres, while the rest of the population lives in squalor without adequate access to essential social services.

Rats have long been one of the world's most ubiquitous — and infamous — forms of urban wildlife, synonymous with pestilence and squalor.