Ministers, mayors, international organisations, urban planners and experts are in Baku, Azerbaijan, to tackle one of the ...

Shinde said the government has already formed 19 cluster redevelopment zones across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

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 ...

A woman drinks from a safe water supply system at Tetultola Slum, Tongi, Gazipur, Bangladesh. Credit: Sakib Imtiaz Subscribe for ads-free reading “If there is money, there is water. No money, no water ...

One hot afternoon last week a truck braked to a halt in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The dust-covered tarpaulin was pulled away, and out of this one truck climbed 40-odd men, women and children — ...

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 ...

As the Rio Olympics approach, a major issue has been security in a city where violence has long plagued hundreds of slums. The bloody reality was all-too-familiar to AP’s Rio staff: stories of ...

Forget about Utopia or even the dystopian Los Angeles depicted in Blade Runner. The future of the city is a vast Third World slum. This year, the world will pass a milestone so profoundly significant ...

Last month, researchers in one of India’s largest cities made a surprising discovery. Of the nearly 7,000 blood samples taken from people in Mumbai’s slums, 57% tested positive for coronavirus ...

In 2021, Shaheena Attarwala moved into her own apartment in Mumbai, leaving behind the slum life she had known. Her family ...