Publication

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Features

Poverty Goes to Town: How the growth of cities affects the urban poor
Drowning in Disaster
The Growth of Cities: a thousand monsters stir
Hostages to Governance: life for the city-bound poor
Urban Conflict - fighting for resources in the slums
Photogallery

 Urbanisation
Film

 Afghanistan - Returnees struggle to find shelter
 Urbanization in Angola
 Egypt - City of the Dead
 Kenya - Slum Survivors
 Pakistan - Ibrahim Haidery settlement in Karachi
 Pakistan - Bangladeshi family living in Machar (Mosquito) colony
 Yemen- Al-Mehwar slum
Frontlines

Water & Health in the City
Natural Disasters & the Environment
Sex in the City
Housing, Land and Governance
Employment & Food Security
Violence in the City
Interviews

Interview with Mike Davis, author of hard-hitting Planet of Slums (2006)
Interview with Helene Gayle, CARE International president and CEO
Interview with David Satterthwaite, former head and current chief researcher for IIED
Rasna Warah, writer of UN Habitat’s, “State of the World’s Cities 2006/7
Nairobi People’s Settlement Network Interview
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