Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" ...

Despite urbanization’s link to rising incomes, about one-third of those residing in urban areas live in "slum households." Anthropologist James Holston , in his " Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of ...

In Africa and South Asia, a majority of city residents live in slums. Almost the entire urban population (96 percent) of the Central African Republic lives in similar circumstances.

Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements. Journal of Urban Health , 2020; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6 Cite This Page : ...

Urban planning activists like Professor Nausheen H. Anwar, believes that city slum dwellers in Pakistan and across developing countries may emerge as one of the most vulnerable populations to the ...

A study conducted in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil has found that open sewers, accumulations of refuse, and inadequate floodwater drainage are acting as sources for transmission of the ...

The New Slum Dwellers Brian Cook April 12, 2006. Mike Davis Share. Tweet. Copy Link. Email Print. Published in May 2006. It’s tempting to call Mike Davis, a history professor at University ...

Urban slum conditions must be addressed, says Archbishop Migliore. Apr 22, 2008 / 07:39 am. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, addressed the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council's Commission on ...

The struggle to improve education of the urban slum schools, Negro or white or desegregated, will triumph more quickly if Dr. Conant attains his goal of arousing the conscience of our country.