Animal-human interactions are on the rise in wild-urban zones. Yale scientists are concerned about the implications of ...

This structure in Africa went from tallest building in the southern hemisphere to tallest slum in the world in just a few ...

Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

The Brazilian firm is reinventing last-mile logistics by bridging the gap between favelas and e-commerce with local knowledge ...

However, the reality of living on the new estates rarely lived ... poor planning of many peripheral estates soon replicated the slum conditions of the inner-city, with damp and condensation ...

The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave ...

Roads are built through slum areas; water pipelines are laid out or boreholes drilled; even “last mile” power lines are sometimes built; and yet the population of Kenyans living in slums ...

A recent report shed light on the social ills that face women living in slums. The magnitude of the poor living standards that characterise informal settlements and slums in Nairobi is overwhelming.

POOR people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil ...

Living in slum conditions led to poor health and in 1950 Glasgow had the highest mortality rate from tuberculosis in Europe. In 1951 more than half of Glasgow households lived in one- or two ...