Activists have voiced concerns about the negative impact the Unified Building Rules will have on environment and urban ...

Peter Joseph says he does his best to keep his family safe during the coronavirus pandemic. They all wear masks. They use hand sanitizer when they can find a supply – it's in short supply across the ...

Paul Osmond receives funding from the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living, where he is a project lead on microclimates. As Australian cities grow and transform, we need to ensure we are ...

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 ...

We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the world’s population of eight billion will ...

Slum from the perspective of the United Nations is when a household with a group of individuals lives under the same roof with one or more of the following conditions; access to improved water, access ...

Government-enforced social isolation can be devastating for the nearly 1 billion people around the globe currently dwelling in urban slums, where physical space is scarce and many rely on daily wage ...

New Delhi: Delhi health department's ongoing community-based tuberculosis (TB) screening drive in urban slums has identified 37 cases from among 9,200 people screened so far.The initiative, which uses ...

JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Housing conditions in sub-Saharan Africa have improved dramatically since 2000, but nearly half the urban population still lives in slums, according to a ...