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:''"Shantytown" and "Hutment" redirect here. For the created gold-mining town in New Zealand, see Shantytown, New Zealand.'' A shanty town or squatter area is a settlement of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes. Such settlements are usually found on the periphery of cities, in public parks, or near railroad tracks, rivers, lagoons or city trash dump sites. Sometimes called a squatter, informal or spontaneous settlement, a typical shanty town often lacks proper sanitation, safe water supply, electricity, hygienic streets, or other basic human necessities. Shanty towns are mostly found in developing nations, but also in some parts of developed nations.〔〔(Greek immigration crisis spawns shanty towns and squats ) Nick Squires and Paul Anast, The Telegraph, (September 7, 2009)〕〔(Showdown Looms Over Europe's Largest Shantytown ) LAUREN FRAYER, National Public Radio (Washington DC), April 27, 2012〕 ==Etymology== Shanty is probably from Canadian French ''chantier'', a winter station established for the organization of lumberjacks.〔Oxford English Dictionary Online〕 Hutment means an "encampment of huts". When the term is used by the military, it means "temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Hutment )〕 The term is also a synonym for shanty town, particularly in developing countries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shanty town」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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