To help ensure that environmental and health services are available in slums, Indian women are asserting their rights thanks to solidarity networks and non-confrontational approaches.
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The UN defines water and sanitation as human rights. Why not decent drainage too?
Slums are an increasing common phenomenon across the global North and global South. To what extent could they be seen as an inherent part of the urbanisation process?
From Chinese tourists in Kidlington, to Brits slumming it in Rio, everyone wants an ‘authentic’ experience.
As many as 30,000 delegates gathered to decide the future of cities for the next 20 years – here’s how it played out.
As cities trumpet their liveability, creativity and greenness, many informal settlement activities are often relegated to the shadows.
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.
Imagine cities competed to eliminate hunger, poverty, unemployment, crime and greenhouse emissions, and to offer housing and transport for all. Don’t scoff – urban planning was once an Olympic event.
New York, Berlin and Paris have all suffered some ill effects from online rental platforms – without proper regulations, Rio could follow.
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.
Slum tourism is broadly rejected as morally dubious and voyeuristic. But we should take a second look.
Building better, inclusive cities involves enabling the wise use of public land and taxes to ensure that high-quality housing and amenities are provided for all at a lower cost.
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.
It is 2016 but, when it comes to housing, in many ways it could actually be 1891.
Migrants can be a huge boon to cities – but planning to support them is crucial.
Racial segregation and poisonous living conditions played a large part in determining the young man’s fate.
Should we be celebrating the Commonwealth Games organisers’ decision not to demolish Glasgow’s iconic Red Road Flats as part of the opening ceremony, where the live footage was to be beamed on huge screens…
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Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
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Research Fellow, The Australasian Centre for Resilience Implementation for Sustainable Communities, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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