An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

Tap Here to Add The Daily Star As A Trusted Source Mosharraf Hossain Gazi, 48, of Pratapnagar Union in Assasuni Upazila of ...

The neighborhood of Cota 905 in Caracas shares a name with the gang that runs it with impunity – Copyright AFP Yuri CORTEZ A Venezuelan soldier takes cover behind ...

Suggested Citation: "2 Perspectives on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in an Urban and Interconnected World." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018.

The slums in the Global South hold the key to building circular cities in other developing countries, according to Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers. Slums, a term used to describe informal ...

The crisis in the Nigerian rental market is, increasingly, assuming a dangerous dimension as even areas described as urban ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - In Nehru Nagar, the teeming Mumbai slum featured in the Golden Globe-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," the only music heard is on tiny radio sets and the young boys have no ...

My Easter weekend with missionaries who follow Christ to the uttermost. For the first time in history, one of every two people lives in a city. Some 860 million of these city-dwellers reside in ...