Book Review of The Classic Slum

Robert Roberts 'book, the first quarter of the world' s classic slums: Life at Salford made a real explanation of the Manchester village in the first quarter of the 20th century. The title is used by Friedrich Engels' book "Working Class Conditions" to describe the description of the field. Manchester Publishing College first published Roberts' work in 1971. The recently published book of Penguin has 254 pages including an appendix. The author first explains the extreme poverty faced by the area he grew up.

One of the first results of Google's "Slum Walk" was the Trip to Delhi page by an organization called "Education For All" or "Pete". The service has 5 stars and 290 reviews. It took me about 30 seconds to scroll the reviews of the slums, I began to cry. "I did not notice obvious wrath, only a friendly greeting to the people who visited their area, they are not saying they prefer to live under these conditions.This level of grace To show that these situations - very humble, "a 5 star critic wrote. In places with negative comments, this is because poverty does not meet the strict standards of tourists. "This is truly disappointing because the real slums that we had been going to have been totally destroyed.

Today, more than 1 billion people live in the slums. This is one of eight people. Slums are regarded as informal settlements and are common in cities. They are known for their inappropriate dwellings, overcrowding and poor living conditions. As people enter the city seeking better economic opportunities, the government seeks to support population growth. Many people who can not access alternative houses eventually enter the slums, but many others are born in the slums and are hard to escape. Slum dwellers do not have the right to own the land they live in, but they still settle down and build a house

How many people live in the slums of the city? In the figure below you can see the population of people living in the city's slums and the population of cities not living in the slums. This can be displayed by country using the Change country option in the lower left corner of the graph below. Here we can see that despite continued population growth in most countries and increasing urbanization rates, the absolute number of urban slums has also declined in many countries. Although the definition of "city" shows the population density to some extent, it does not distinguish urban environment living in a small urban environment. The chart below shows what percentage of the total population of a community in which more than 1 million people live (ie, the accumulation of large cities). These numbers are provided in absolute terms (the total number of people living in the metropolitan environment) and can be found here