Yet in the Motala Heights slum in South Africa, along with many others around the world, the situation remains stagnant as governments continue to deny slum dwellers basic infrastructure and ...

Mehta sees this involvement of private money as essential for slum regeneration around the world. "Every major university and design and planning institute in the world is studying this model," he ...

Population growth and insufficient housing have led to the development of informal settlements or slums on city outskirts around the world. Over one billion people live in these settlements ...

Orangi Town in Karachi, Pakistan, has earned the unwelcome reputation of being the world's largest slum. The cluster of settlements on the outskirts of Karachi is home to an astonishing 2.4 ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning ... recommend ways for policymakers to tackle the issue. The world has produced more plastic in the past 20 years than the ...

Dharavi, in the heart of Mumbai, is Asia’s largest slum. It is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Dharavi is home to close to 58,000 families and around 12,000 commercial ...