Definition of slum : a densely populated usually urban area marked by crowding, dirty run-down housing, poverty, and social disorganization.

Slum is also saying that densely populated area of substandard housing, usually in a city, characterized by unsanitary conditions and social disorganization. The Characteristics of slum is very associated with negative images vary place to place, which is usually characterized by high rates of poverty, illiteracy, insanity, urban decay, and unemployment of city. Many cities have these ‘Slum area’ problems.

In the article “Shadow cities”, we need a lot of money to solve the housing problem in Slum area over the world. According to the article, “the world cities should build homes for 670 million people over the coming 15 years. This, the UN estimates, would cost $ 294 billion dollars. A mammoth amount, to be sure. But some simple math brings the number down to earth. We could raise that sum by collecting $3 a year from every person on the planet.” It is almost impossible to solve by only money. The article saying is not only problem of money but also problem of organizational and administrational structure.

Also growing slum-dwellers is important issues for future. In John Beardsley’s article, “A Billion Slum Dwellers and Counting,” “The number of slum-dwellers is expected to double by 2030; slums are now the dominant form of urban land use in much of the developing world.” More and poorer people inflow to slum area these days they don’t have money to live in the expensive area and they have no idea about their living. The government around the world only thinks about solving the problems of slums by clearing away old decrepit housing and replacing it with modern housing with much better sanitation, which is just temporary and short-sight solution for slum area and there is not consideration of people who live there.

Works Cited

Shadow Cities, Robert Neuwirth, Page xiii

A Billion Slum Dwellers and Counting, John Beardsley, Page 54