http://www.metafilter.com/tags/slum Posts tagged with 'slum' at MetaFilter. Mon, 26 May 2008 19:40:56 -0800 Mon, 26 May 2008 19:40:56 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72002/Brutal%2DNew%2DYork I've only ever <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/">seen</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Wish_(film)#Impact_and_influence">70 &amp; 80's era</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvDo2JHB7o">New York</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080117/">in movies</a> and I've never really thought about their source of inspiration. Until I saw <a href="http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544">this.</a>(a few graphic photos on that last link) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72002 Mon, 26 May 2008 19:40:56 -0800 eighties ghetto new newyork nineties seventies slum york concreteforest http://www.metafilter.com/57022/Slums <a href="http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue2/0206p24.htm">One-billion slum dwellers.</a> An interview with <a href="http://soniafaleiro.blogspot.com/2006/12/city-must-win-progress-must-win-slum.html" title="A Tamilian who came to Bombay from Bangalore in 1963, Arputham was stung by the poor conditions in which the urban poor lived. 'They are treated like shit', he says, 'there is no place for them in society'. ">Jockin Arputham</a> who helped set-up <a href="http://www.sdinet.org/index.htm" title="NSDF and Mahila Milan have been involved in exchange programmes with the South African Homeless People’s Federation since 1991. These exchange programmes formed the platform for the launch of SDI.">Shack/Slum Dwellers International</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.57022 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:53:57 -0800 activism india jockinarputham nsdf poverty sdi slum tellurian http://www.metafilter.com/32416/Just%2DWall%2Dit%2DOff <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3620847.stm">Brazil Wants to Build a Wall</a> Social and economic problems out of control? No problem. Brazil plans to literally build a 10 foot wall to separate the haves from the have nots. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.32416 Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:26:04 -0800 BBC Brazil crime favela favelas poverty Rio RioDeJaneiro Rocinha slum slums Vidigal wall walls muppetboy http://www.metafilter.com/31515/Kamagasaki <a href="http://www.icpress.com/Gallery/Kama/index.html">The Kamagasaki Gallery.</a> Background to and photographs of a Japanese slum. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31515 Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:29:17 -0800 gallery japan kamagaska photography photos slum plep