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 ...

Neza-Chalco-Itza: One of Mexico City's many barrios, Neza-Chalco-Itza is the largest slum in the world with roughly four million people. Slums in Mexico city began growing in the early 1900s when ...

In the world’s slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide This article was originally published in OrionOnline. Precarious dwellings in North Sulawasi, Indonesia.

The Southland’s Third World slums. By David Kelly . March 26, 2007 ... What began as occupants of a few trailers seeking refuge from the county has turned into a vast slum bearing streets named ...

Late in 2003 the United Nations reported that one billion people—approximately one third of the world’s urban dwellers and a sixth of all humanity, live in slums. And it predicted that within ...

Today, 85% of the world’s slum-dwelling population is concentrated in Asia and Africa, leading many to believe that countries in the developed world have no slums.

Worldwide, more than 340,000 children under age 5 died from diarrheal diseases in 2013 due to a lack of safe water, sanitation and basic hygiene. That’s 1,000 deaths a day, according to the UN ...

As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to carve out a place in the cities of ...

Putting the World’s Slums on the Map. Researchers and residents are turning to open-source data tools to fill information gaps about informal settlements that often get left off official maps.

How the World’s Biggest Slum Stopped the Virus. Dharavi contained Covid-19 against all the odds. Now its people need to survive an economic catastrophe. By Ari Altstedter and Dhwani Pandya ...

The World’s Largest Slums – Orangi Town, Pakistan In 2016, a report by the World Economic Forum reported that Dharavi in India was one of the largest slums in the world. Another major slum ...