Editing Slum (section)

==Etymology and nomenclature==
[[File:London slums Wellcome L0000877.jpg|thumb|right|19th century slum, London]]
It is thought<ref>Douglas Harper (2001). [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slum "Slum"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203031630/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slum |date=2014-02-03}} ''Etymology Dictionary''.</ref> that ''slum'' is a British slang word from the [[East End]] of London meaning "room", which evolved to "back slum" around 1845 meaning 'back alley, street of poor people.'

Numerous other non-English terms are often used interchangeably with ''slum'': [[shanty town]], [[favela]], [[Rookery (slum)|rookery]], [[gecekondu]], [[skid row]], [[barrio]], [[ghetto]], [[banlieue]], bidonville, taudis, bandas de miseria, barrio marginal, morro, paragkoupoli, loteamento, barraca, musseque, [[:tl:iskuwater|iskuwater]], [[inner city]], tugurio, solares, mudun safi, kawasan kumuh, karyan, medina achouaia, brarek, ishash, galoos, tanake, baladi, [[:ru:Трущобы|trushchoby]], chalis, katras, zopadpattis, ftohogeitonia, basti, estero, looban, dagatan, umjondolo, watta, udukku, and chereka bete.<ref>''Slums of the World: The Face of Urban Poverty in the New Millennium?'' {{ISBN|92-1-131683-9}}, UN-Habitat; page 30.</ref>

The word ''slum'' has negative connotations, and using this label for an area can be seen as an attempt to delegitimize that land use when hoping to repurpose it.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1177/095624788900100201 |title=Beyond the stereotype of 'slums' |journal=Environment and Urbanization |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=2–5 |year=2016 |s2cid=220803082 |doi-access=free}}</ref>