slum clearance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofslumandclearance
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slum
noun[C]
uk/slʌm/us/slʌm/
a very poor and crowded area, especially of ...
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clearance
noun
uk/ˈklɪə.rəns/us/ˈklɪr.əns/
the process of removing waste or things you do not want from ...
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(Definition ofslumandclearancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Secondly, for new housing for those who can only be housed at a loss, and thirdly for compensation forslumclearance.
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Nor are the claims for the city's lacklustre performance inslumclearancesupported by detail from housing department sources.
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In chronologyslumclearancein the major cities follows the national pattern for this activity with its emphasis on the peak period.
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Postponing for the moment the issue of owner occupation, the rising property market had some important direct effects onslumclearance.
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The middle period not only sawslumclearanceactivity rise to a peak, but an increased concentration on clearance areas.
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The results help to provide a check to the natural tendency to build the story ofslumclearancearound a few particular models.
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This emphasized the need forslumclearanceand redevelopment, and profoundly affected the city in the 1960s.
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Therefore,slumclearancegradually came to be favoured as the best method of eliminating the slums and dispersing their inhabitants.
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Theslumclearancemovement began as a fairly widely-based operation in the early period.
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The problem of poor quality housing stock, to whichslumclearancewas once seen as an answer, had not been effectively resolved.
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The plight of owner occupiers inslumclearanceset up resonances in the wider electorate, and interacted variably with the attitudes of councils.
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It is this kind of impact that makesslumclearancean important process.
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At the same time, however, the city dusted off its plans of the 1930s and early 1940s for a major programme ofslumclearanceand redevelopment in its central areas.
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Until the 'rules of the game' were changed, public money could only be put into private housing through improvement, which until 1974 was regarded as complementary toslumclearance.
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One way of resisting this is simply to transpose the perceived futures of property in 1955 and 1985, and to imagine what the effects onslumclearancewould have been.
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Seen as convergence, there is plenty of scope for such factors to be in-uential in local authority approaches toslumclearance.
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