CAIRO (Reuters) - Bayada Mohamed has left her old slum on a crumbling cliffside and moved into a new flat in a Cairo residential complex, making her among the first to benefit from a government plan ...

The site for Jonas Bendiksen’s book of photographs from the world’s worst slums – The Places We Live – is beautiful and educational and emotional. Soon 1 billion people will live in slums, and ...

Luciene Pereira argues that instead of bulldozing informal settlements, governments should make them obsolete.

From the favelas of Sao Paulo to the slums of Mumbai, informal settlements are often portrayed as chaotic, dirty and the antithesis to urban planning, compared to the gleaming high rises towering ...