Sentences with phrase «world shantytown»

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

For people living in the poorest regions of the world without access to, or money for electric bulbs, the bottle light has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life, as Notions Capital describes it, for «billions of poor people in sun - swept favelas, shantytowns, and bidonvilles and scattered rural dwellings around the globe.»

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.

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.»