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    Slum clearance in the United Kingdom has been used as an urban renewal strategy to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type...
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    urban communities; for example, slum clearance plans were required in the United Kingdom in the Housing Act 1930, while the Housing Acts of 1937 and 1949...
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    Slum clearance in the United States has been used as an urban renewal strategy to regenerate derelict or run-down districts, often to be replaced with...
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  • Slum clearance in India is used as an urban renewal approach to redevelop and transform poor and low income settlements into new developments or housing...
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    to Slums in South Africa. Slum clearance in the United States Slum clearance in the United Kingdom Slum clearance in India "Capetown Starts Slum Clearance"...
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    on slum clearance and redevelopment schemes. The compromises generally sought to replace inhospitable slums with high-rise blocks served by lifts. In the...
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    housing became needed to provide "homes fit for heroes" in 1919, then to enable slum clearance. Standards were set to ensure high-quality homes. Aneurin...
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    until the 1940s, when the British government started slum clearance and built new council houses. There are still examples left of slum housing in the UK...
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  • usually as part of the process of slum clearance. They were created on the outskirts of most large British towns and during most of the 20th century, with...
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    health and social reform reasons. Slum clearances and other programmes focused mainly on the demolition of housing in disadvantaged areas have often been...
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    Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1933 (category Slum clearance)
    covered Scotland. The Act ended subsidies to local authorities for building housing, except for slum clearance which was supported by the Housing Act 1930...
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    such areas. In extreme situations, government compulsory purchase powers in many countries enable slum clearance to replace or renovate the worst of neighbourhoods...
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    in the United Kingdom is measured and responded to in differing ways in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but affects people living in every...
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    Gwavas (category Housing estates in England)
    the same name in the parishes of Grade-Ruan and Sithney. The estate was built by Penzance Borough Council in 1937 following limited slum clearance in...
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    Council house (category Public housing in the United Kingdom)
    Act 1930 stimulated slum clearance, i.e., the destruction of inadequate houses in the inner cities that had been built before the 1875 Act. This released...
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    flight to the suburbs. Like many industrial nations before the Second World War, the United Kingdom carried out extensive slum clearances. These efforts...
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    Two-up two-down (category House types in the United Kingdom)
    a slum clearance programme, but in some areas local community groups campaigned to save them, such as Toxteth Street in Openshaw, Manchester. The 1966...
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    833 for Salford in 1865, and peaking at 766,311 in 1931. From then the population began to decrease rapidly, due to slum clearance and the increased building...
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    million in April 1951. However, slum clearance in the 1960s led to displacement of residents from the city centre to new communities located outside the city...
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    Shanty town (category IMDb title ID not in Wikidata)
    metropolis. In Africa, many shanty towns are starting to implement the use of composting toilets and solar panels. In India, people living in slums have access...
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    The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on Thursday 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some...
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    Leeds (redirect from Leeds, United Kingdom)
    supply. Slum clearance and rebuilding began in Leeds during the interwar period when over 18,000 houses were built by the council on 24 estates in Cross...
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    Back-to-back house (category Slums in Europe)
    Most back-to-backs were demolished in waves of slum clearances, although many remain in Leeds and Bradford. The cities of Birmingham and Liverpool, where...
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    Housing Act 1930 (category Housing legislation in the United Kingdom)
    is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It encouraged mass slum clearance and councils to set to work to demolish poor quality housing and replace...
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    Wolfson Centre (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    undergoing slum clearance as part of the Townhead Comprehensive Development Area (CDA). Part of the plan would be a dedicated building for the new Bioengineering...
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    Jane Jacobs (category Members of the Order of Ontario)
    economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers...
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    Overspill estate (category Town and country planning in the United Kingdom)
    usually as part of the process of slum clearance. They were created on the outskirts of most large British towns and during most of the 20th century, with...
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  • programme of slum clearance. Since the 1970s, the UK government has restricted funding for social housing projects. This has also impacted upon the existing...
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    Matthew Hay (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    slum clearance and re-development. Programmes of slum clearance were principally concerned with the effects of the poor living conditions on the moral...
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    Jews' Court, Lincoln (category Buildings and structures in Lincoln, England)
    to be demolished under a slum clearance order. Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society (a predecessor of the Society for Lincolnshire History...
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