Slums are one of the important and equality persistent problems of urban life. Unlike many recent studies which take a too objective view of the life in slums and depict them as the very purgatory of human existence where poverty and crime alone predominate, the present study, based on the approach of the Chicago School of Park, Burgess, Why and others, takes a humanistic attitude and attempts to search for organized life in it. The study looks at the slum as an ...
