Tura Caves

Painted caves of Dambulla

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

Lying in the gutter?

Urban slums and their youth are the front line for any such efforts.

I saw grottoes and secret gardens and places I'd love to hide as a kid, if I could only breathe underwater.

Countrywide Slum Upgrading

Mummies Crypt

Here, we have it over here.

The slum estimations forecast that there will be 1.4 billion slum dwellers by 2020, if it is assumed that current proportions of slums to urban populations remain valid during the forthcoming five year periods, until 2020.

He seems to have moved from everywhere.

It is not the case that slums undermine prosperity, not the working slums they help create prosperity.

And he spent the last 10 years of his life in two places only, the slums and the state prison, where he spent the last two years before he ended up sitting on this rock there.

There are many slums in Mexico.

You prophesy me death in the gutter?

I completely forgot about that wall.

When I'm done we'll throw her back.

I had an office in those days which bordered a slum, an urban slum, so there was a dividing wall between our office and the urban slum.

Urban development promoting jobs, upgrading slums and developing alternatives to new slum formation

Funny part of it is, I'm from the same gutter.

Come midnight, he'll be in the gutter.

By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers as proposed in the Cities Without Slums initiative.

I dropped down in this ice hole, just through that hole that you just saw, and I looked up under the underside of the ice, and I was dizzy I thought I had vertigo.

This innovation is from the slums of Rio.

C. Slum Upgrading Facility

That's one billion people in the world live in slums.

Why didn't you leave me where you picked me up, the gutter?

It was clarified that the draft final recommendation of task force 8 for the slum target would reflect strategies related to the goal of improving the lives of present slum dwellers as well as providing adequate recommendations to prevent new slum formation.

It is widely assumed that the earliest human artworks are the stupendously skillful cave paintings that we all know from Lascaux and Chauvet.

The UN Habitat Government of Kenya slum upgrading programme is located at the Athi River and at Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa.

The problem of slums could not be eliminated overnight and long term plans were necessary, but poverty was the root cause of slums.

There are things they care about.

Headfirst and landed in the gutter.

I began by almost getting a broken scull, then was chased by a group of police dogs.

When I was a kid growing up in the South Bronx, inner city ghetto in New York, I was surrounded by evil, as all kids are who grew up in an inner city.

So, that's Kibera, the largest squatter community in Nairobi.

And right next to where I used to work, there was a slum.

Let's go all over the world and photograph every single slum around the world.

Urban poor improving the lives of slum dwellers

A man like Emmerich has got more than one place to hang his hat.

UN Habitat research priorities address the following issues slums and urban poverty, secure tenure, market eviction and gentrification, rental housing within slums and the implications for slum upgrading, housing rights, and natural disasters or conflict, as well as gender equality in housing access.

The Millennium Development Goal on improving the lives of slum dwellers should be understood not only as a commitment to improve the lives of existing slum dwellers, but also as a request to plan for the future of cities with the view to preventing slum formation.

For the developed countries, the figure was 6 per cent.

Round table 4 Rural urban interface and slums

The slum upgrading programme continues to constitute a path breaking process, in which each stage contributes significantly towards achieving the Millennium Declaration target on slums.