Mike Yastrzemski drove in the tiebreaking run with a pinch-hit double in the eighth inning, and Mauricio Dubón finished off ...

BIENVENIDO Santos was born in the slums of Tondo, Manila, on March 22, 1911. His parents were illiterate peasants. His father ...

Discover how Tanmaya Shekhar's Hindi indie film 'Nukkad Naatak' blends street theatre and social media to explore activism and child labour in India.

The standard policy response to slums — relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing elsewhere — is older than the slums themselves. It has never worked. The logic seems ...

Mumbai: Even as successive governments have promised a “slum-free Mumbai,” the encroached area in the city has grown by 68% between 2011 and 2025, according to satellite-based estimates by the Slum ...

Slums now occupy nearly 24% of Mumbai’s land and house more than half of its population, according to findings by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). Mumbai real estate update: Slums now occupy ...

Christians struggle to help displaced residents find shelter. Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a century-old fishing ...

MY DAYS OF ANSER — James T. Farrell —Vanguard ($2.75). In the early ’30s, a somewhat owlish Chicago slum boy named James Thomas Farrell decided to make the U.S. slum-sensitive. He succeeded better ...

Al Capone is America's best known gangster and perhaps the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the Prohibition era of the 1920s. The FBI branded the ...

Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes being demolished in 2007. As high-rise public housing was removed, it was promised that displaced residents would eventually be allowed back into their communities in new ...

Using the first complete dataset of more than 415 million buildings across 50 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers at the University of Chicago have created an unprecedented approach to urban ...

The Pulitzer Prize– and Emmy Award–winning journalist recounts a story of hope and heartbreak on the South Side of Chicago. Carolyn Wortham holds a portrait of her family during a press conference on ...