Hintergrund

Urban development

Urban growth can cause water supply problems

Informal settlements

Local ownership is crucial to making slums more liveable

Trauma

Confront the past or lose the future

Authoritarian rule

Fact and fiction

Slum-dwellers

India’s commercial hub is a city of migrants

Affordable housing

Why the government’s housing policy is failing in Nairobi

Refugee camps

Kakuma camp has become a permanent settlement

Marginalised communities

Where Brazil's neglected people live

Lebanon

Quick reforms are not in sight in Beirut