The slums of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, are among the most densely populated places on the planet: By some estimates, in some neighborhoods, more than 200,000 people live in a single ...

The growing numbers of slums around cities is creating serious health and environmental problems. Rebekah Brown of Monash University discusses how better water management is a sustainable solution to ...

Strange as it may seem, teeming slums could be the model for the cities of the future, said Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow. Not to minimize the despair in wretched shantytowns and squatter communities in such ...

Residents gather around a mobile museum displayed on an improvised handcart in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Files By Paola Totaro LONDON ...

The most important factor in enabling the spread of pandemics in slums is the neglect of these marginalized populations by governing elites. By Lee W. RileyEva Raphael and Robert Snyder Dr. Riley, Dr.

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 — ...