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A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from a massive 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.
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| Every third person will be a slum dweller within 3... Every third person will be a slum dweller within 30 years, UN agency warns www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1055785,00.html - Web |
| Mute Magazine Vol 2#3, Naked Cities - Struggle in ... Mute Magazine Vol 2#3, Naked Cities - Struggle in the Global Slums, 2006 www.metamute.org/en/Naked-Cities-Struggle-in-the-Global-Slums - Web |
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