What is "shantytown"

Usage examples of "shantytown".

His childhood was spent in a shantytown outside Wheatland, a provincial seat.

In one corner of the railyard lay a small, bedraggled shantytown of plywood, cardboard, and tin.

When it was finished, their father said, "If Collig doesn't find Chet and Biff in Shantytown tonight, and they were kidnaped, their parents should receive ransom notes soon.

What if the shantytowns and bidonvilles sprouting up around the globe that do not appear on any maps are far more important to the future of civilization than many of the downtowns and prosperous suburbs that do appear on maps?

The pink Art Deco monstrosity stood on a bluff overlooking a tin roof shantytown.

For an increasingly larger portion of humanity, such places are now not just home but the end of the rainbow: the ultimate step-up from a zinc-roofed shack in a shantytown.

Giraffes, shantytowns, diamond mines, hamburgers and Afrikaans burghers, land sharks, great white sharks, pool sharks--you name it.

The two vehicles went northwest into the New Territories on the Sha Tin-Tai Po road that curled through villages and resettlement areas and shantytowns of squatters, through the mountain pass, skirting the railway that headed north for the border, past rich market gardens heavy with the smell of dung.

The number nine storm warning had been hoisted at dusk and already eighty- to a hundred-knot gusts came out of the tempest that stretched a thousand miles southward to send the rain horizontal against the roofs and hillsides where tens of thousands of squatters huddled defenseless in their shantytowns of makeshift hovels.

They were standing close to the summit of a hill, a quarter of a mile from the perimeters of a sprawling shantytown, from which a din of activity rose.

When the muties in die pit saw a group of stickies coming toward them from the shantytown, they whooped and cheered and waved their gory shovels in the air.

The mayor seemed caught in an upheaval that was tearing away at his culture without replacing it with anything equally substantial, leaving him and the other inhabitants of these shantytowns mercilessly exposed.

However, to keep it that way in the face of both increasing urbanization (the number of shantytowns has tripled in twenty years to 370) and foreign cultural influences—evinced by the profusion of television antennas that beam in not just Moslem sermons but Western-style soap operas— requires an increasingly conservative social glue, which, in turn, can provide an ignitable surface for the spread of Islamic radicalism.

Not that these people in the shantytowns knew, or cared, what “Kemalism” was.

I have myself destroyed slums and shantytowns with money from this foundation.