At the end of the fifth day Senators wearily voted ... practically cuts out slum clearance for some sections which need it most, for high metropolitan construction costs exceed $1,000 per room.

We finally persuaded the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to undertake the greatest slum clearance project in the country, known as Stuyvesant Town in the heart of the old East Side of ...

about a thriving Italian neighborhood in the West End of Boston that had been destroyed by an urban-renewal program under the misguided banner of slum clearance. The interstate highway system and ...

Demolition in the East End predated the Luftwaffe. Sunderland was the seventh most bombed city in Britain. In two raids in ...

It’s made up of brick rubble which is from the steelworks in East Moors, which was across the way from where the beach is, and so-called slum clearance ... at how the end of work in an area ...

Roughly 40,000 still-affordable cooperative housing units—Amalgamated Houses, Concourse Village and Co-op City in the Bronx; Penn South in the heart of Manhattan; 1199 Plaza in East Harlem ...

Today, Kenya joins the world in celebrating the World Habitat Day whose theme is; voices from the slums. While Kenya is ranked a middle income country, World Bank statistics show that 4 in every ...

A terrace typical of East Lancashire’s industrial heritage complete with a third storey which would often be used for weaving and piecework attached to the local mill. This was Hopwood Street in ...

Mumbai: Bombay high court on Friday undertook a ‘performance audit’ of a law whose objective, it said, is to “achieve a vision of a slum-free city” and sought suggestions from the state ...

The Dharavi slum, about three-quarters of the size of New York's Central Park, featured in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 movie "Slumdog Millionaire". Its open sewers and shared toilets ...

As a result of the nation’s ardent aspirations for growth and development, the social, economic, and physical landscape of India has transformed. A significant portion of the region’s ...

MUMBAI: With the BMC inviting bids from a contractor for its new slum cleaning programme ... gathered in protest at the BMC’s M East ward office on Wednesday morning. The BMC had announced ...