What is "shantytowns"

Usage examples of "shantytowns".

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 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.

While Turks are growing deeply distrustful and coming to hate Moslem Iran, they are also, especially in the shantytowns that are coming to dominate Turkish political life, identifying themselves increasingly as Moslems, betrayed by a West that for several years did little to help besieged Moslems in Bosnia and which attacks Turkish Moslems in the streets of Germany.

Like the inhabitants of the Chinese and Egyptian shantytowns that I had seen, with television antennas rising above their mudhuts, these poor migrants know temptation.

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.

Little shantytowns lined the banks every few miles, or bigger whitewashed buildings surrounded by shacks.

Away from the main streets, shantytowns were taking on new life, however, as oil workers and miners moved in.

There were the Chandytowns, sometimes pronounced Shantytowns, also known as Gypsy Penthouses, Rookeries, Bat Mansions, Goddamn Public Nuisances, dangerous eyesores, accidents-in-progress, and many more unflattering terms.

The slums and shantytowns south of Delhi gave way to mile after bumpy mile of congested roadways as the limo made its way across the open countryside, through rocky hills and shadowy ravines.

At least four kilometers of densely packed slums and shantytowns, as well as a major railway station, he recalled, were crammed between the Union Carbide plant and this suburban district.