tent city

Today Skid Row resembles a Third World tent city teeming with sleeping bags, shopping carts, and people with nowhere else to go.

In the frigid temperatures, demonstrators constructed barricades, built a massive tent city and occupied government buildings.

They call their tent city Romneyville, a play on the Hoovervilles, shantytowns of the Great Depression.

Lynn Waddell talks to the tent-city organizers—and the city police chief making preparations.

Still, the show felt nothing like an energizing, disorienting walk through the tent-city stronghold in Zuccotti Park.

They filled the town and overflowed on to the sands outside, where a great tent-city grew up.

Where means permit it, a family may have a little tent city all to itself; and they don't call the tent city a sanitarium.

I would have taken it myself—before I first went to the Tent City.

Electricity is now established at Laguna Beach and the laboratory and tent city are well provided with an ample lighting system.

The tent city and dining hall will again offer accommodations at reasonable prices.