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Examples of shantytown
shantytown
He arrived in Morristown about a year ago from a shantytown outside Mexico City.
From the chron.com
There was no mention of the dead, or the giant shantytown a few hundred feet away.
From the sacbee.com
One of the blazes left about 1,500 people homeless when it razed their shantytown.
From the charlotteobserver.com
No, it's not an adventurous form of urban camping or a recession-fueled shantytown.
From the abcnews.go.com
As the economy booms, shantytown residents buy on installment and pile on the debt.
From the businessweek.com
The shantytown is a surreal backdrop when viewed through Quico's mind's eye.
From the kentucky.com
Above all, Ze do Carmo, as he's known in the Santa Marta shantytown, is a businessman.
From the sfgate.com
Suddenly, in the shantytown where she lives, lots of people wanted to loan her money.
From the online.wsj.com
In one shantytown south of the city, small bands of youths flung rocks at bus windows.
From the time.com
- A city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties
- A shanty town (also called a squatter settlement) is a slum settlement (sometimes illegal or unauthorized) of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal and sheets of plastic. ...
- (shantytowns) Settlements created when people move onto undeveloped lands and build their own shelter with cheap or discarded materials; some are simply illegal subdivisions where a landowner rents land without city approval; others are land invasions.
- Neighborhoods where poor migrants to cities live. Also called slum, farela, township.
- A usually poor section of town consisting mostly of small, crudely-built dwellings
