From Santiago and La Paz to Beirut and Jakarta, many of the cities now gripped by protest share a common problem: They've grown too much, too fast.
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A community of 200,000 in Dhaka faces eviction to make room for "development". Is it time to rethink the concept, especially with a billion people now living in informal settlements worldwide?
Brazil's scorpion infestation, which is terrorizing residents of São Paulo and other major cities, is a classic 'wicked problem.' That means officials must think outside-the-box to fix it.
Indians were promised they would be included in planning 100 smart cities and that everyone would benefit. But many of the millions of slum residents have had no say in their homes being destroyed.
Research shows that access to urban green space makes people and neighborhoods healthier. But parks can't work their magic if their design ignores the needs of nearby communities.
Research in Ghana shows that improving slum housing could be one of the alternatives to the capital's housing crisis.
A study in Kenya found that that there's an association between relatively higher economic status and obesity in a slum setting.
Moving people without taking their social and economic concerns into consideration isn't the way to deal with urban slums.
King argued for a national guaranteed income that would keep people out of poverty. Fifty years later, the Poor People's Campaign still resonates.
Bogota's mayor wants to make the city 'better for all,' but repeated police crackdowns have displaced thousands of homeless Colombians. Are clean streets really more important than human rights?
Despite increased global awareness about poor conditions in slums, the health of their inhabitants is a little studied phenomenon.
For decades, Brazil has worked to improve conditions in its poorest neighbourhoods: building roads, drainage, lighting, and safer housing. Will budget cuts end its ambitious slum-upgrading efforts?
New research finds almost a million Australians are living in poor or very poor-quality housing, with more than 100,000 in dwellings regarded as very poor or derelict.
Like Brazil's favela dwellers, America's working poor felt a sense of pride and community in their shantytowns – and desperately resisted the powerful interests that sought to demolish them.
Bringing significant benefits to an emergent middle class, Dhaka's cultural, economic, environmental and political landscapes are being rapidly but unevenly transformed.
The world's informal settlements are growing at an unprecedented rate, with about one in four urban dwellers living in slums. We need to rethink how we view and deal with these people and places.
How did lead poisoning become a persistent threat in U.S. cities? Lead paint and slumlords played key roles, but so did postwar housing policies that trapped minorities in crumbling inner cities.
Residents in Nairobi's urban slums are opting for fast food rather than the healthy alternatives, which is increasing their risk of developing diabetes.
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Associate Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Dean, Research and Innovation, University of South Australia
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Professor of Housing Research, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide
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Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
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Millennium Promise Fellow and Senior Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Researcher for the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative; adjunct instructor, The University of Montana
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Senior Research Fellow, Digital Media, Western Sydney University
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Institute Associate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer of English, University of Virginia
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Policy Outreach Manager , African Population and Health Research Center
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Assistant Professor, Division of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
