Despite increased global awareness about poor conditions in slums, the health of their inhabitants is a little studied phenomenon.
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Articles on urban slums
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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.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, University of South Australia
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Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
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Researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of Social Epidemiology, Principal Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Millennium Promise Fellow and Senior Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Researcher for the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative; adjunct instructor, 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
