At its height circa 1989, Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place on Earth. More than 35,000 people lived in ...

About a sixth of the world's population — nearly 1 billion people — live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don't reverse course and start giving the issue serious ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

In a guest blog post, Indian journalist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar argues that, contrary to their reputation for squalor and crime, slums provide a critical low-cost way for the rural poor to ...

A devastating fire in a crowded slum in Bangladesh’s capital has destroyed 1,500 shanties and left thousands homeless ...

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Every year, extreme rainfall during the monsoon season, which begins in June and ends in September, results in approximately 8% of the coastal megacity's deaths.

FLYING into Mumbai airport, many visitors' first view of India is of a mass of corrugated-roofed slums clustered on hillsides around the end of the main runway. That is scarcely a viable image for a ...

Lucknow: A team of Lucknow police and Local Intel Unit (LIU) on Monday carried out an extensive verification drive in the ...

If the mainstream view on the slums describes them as places to escape from and as to destroy as soon as possible, more and more people look at slums in a different way. The first glances at slums ...

* Photo: Andrew Zbihlyj * Some people see a squatter city in Nigeria or India and the desperation overwhelms them: rickety shelters, little kids working or begging, filthy water and air. Stewart Brand ...

Many Indian authorities here proudly claim this seaside metropolis -- the nation's largest -- as an Asian financial hub on par with Shanghai and Tokyo. But critics quickly point out that India -- ...