The slums

Alley on Kowloon side, Hong Kong:

The world is a Ghetto because more people in the world live in shanties or slums, while the few live in utter opulence. They all live in filth, poverty, sickness, crime and underdeveloped habitat

Slums of India and the areas of slum and shanty towns in India has been of great interest for the photographer ...

In 2015, India launched its "Smart City Mission" to build 100 smart cities throughout the country by 2020. But is the mission, as well as the very concept of an Indian Smart City, flawed?

The narrowness of alleys in a slum A city can suffer of vascular stenosis. Such terms are used when the density of traffic is clogging the roads. One speaks of a traffic infarct when an area is blocked by traffic jams. In this metaphor, the traffic is the blood in the vessels (the streets) of the city. Yet there is something wrong with this comparison. Blood vessels constrict by atherosclerosis, gradually diminishing the blood stream. In the case of the traffic infarct the cause is not a…

The White Building in Cambodia’s Phnom Peng slum was once the pinnacle of modern day living but today it's one of the last monuments to the urbanized poor.

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