slums

". . . follows Daniel, Mutura, and Lucy as they fight to transform their slum through art and skating. . . . [Addresses] African culture, female empowerment, and creating sustainable change in developing countries"--Provided by publisher.

"In Bangalore, India, five young women fight to save their homes, which are really only shacks and lean-tos, in a slum named "Heaven," which the city wants to bulldoze in order to accommodate its growing tech industry"--.

There are lots of different kinds of homes. Learn more about the many places people call home.

Looks at the career of reporter, photographer, and social reformer, Jacob Riis.

United States Marine Rye Barcott describes his friendship with a widowed nurse, Tabitha Atieno Festo, and a community organizer, Salim Mohamed, that developed into a combined effort to create the organization Carolina for Kibera, which promotes participatory development.

Don Reedy, a product of the crime-ridden, falling-down neighborhood of Crumbtown, decides to take another shot at pulling off a successful bank robbery after being paroled early from jail to serve as a consultant on a reality television show based on his life.

Fourth-graders' descriptions of their slum neighborhood are accompanied by black and white photographs.

Traces the history of the nineteenth-century New York neighborhood known as Five Points where poverty, riots, political scams, and alcoholism combined with the rich cultures of arriving immigrants and gave rise to such characters as Boss Tweed and the Bowery B'hoys.