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 ...
BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once known as Temple City for its ancient Hindu temples, Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha aims to reposition itself as a hub ...
Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of developing countries. Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about mathematics. In a math-fueled study, the team (which included researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak ...
What you will not find in Seattle today is a single solution to its housing crisis, which, for the past 20 years of rapid capital growth, has expanded its population of homeless humans. The reason why ...
People feel a real sense of community in slums like Kibera in Nairobi. EPA-EFE/DAI KUROKAWA In sub-Saharan Africa, over 55% of the urban population are estimated to live in areas categorised as slums ...
Anna K. Tibaijuka is Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, the first African woman elected by the UN General Assembly as Under-Secretary-General of a United Nations programme, and is currently serving a ...