Pandakudia slum shows 'smart city' Bhubaneswar has a long way to go

Informal settlements in Odisha capital lack toilets, running water & power; situation worsens during rains and natural disasters; women …

Peripheries: new destinations for vacations

Poverty is not to be relished as a visual prop, or an object of aesthetic appeasement—immunising us to “a new normal” of …

Dilli chalo

A riverfront project that is just a front, sans river

Slums and Society

A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and …

Life in informal cities

Do slum dwellers feature in the grand plan of smart cities?

Evictory of sorts

From our angle

Homing in

CAPART calls for better rural housing and technology in the country

Mundo Villa live

Television>> Slum • Argentina

Children teach elders with play on street

Against the opulent backdrop of the WHO building in the Capital, children of the Anna Nagar slum act out on the street their …

Toilet trouble

Hecklers

Transforming a Karachi slum into a tidy suburb

The success of various programmes initiated under a pilot project in Orangi, a Karachi slum, has inspired its leader to predict the squatter …

If only solutions were so simple

Relocating slums does not reduce pollution; it only increases human misery

The nuances of ignorance

GENDER AND SLUM CULTURE IN URBAN ASIA Susanne Thorbek Publisher: Sage Publications (Vistaar) Price: Rs 225

Delhi’s (and India’s) urban poor may have houses to live. But are they habitable

The habitability of housing, rather than just its availability, will be an important factor in the future, given the trends in climate change

Live in Mumbai, work in Mumbai, but these workers can't vote in Mumbai

Ragpickers, DNT members and construction workers in India's financial capital don't possess the most powerful tool in democracy

Getting Indore's roads to play a double role

An Indore engineer has solved the problem of waterlogging in the city's slums by building sloping roads that lead excess water to the nearest nullah.

Court bars slum-dwellers defecating in the open

Residents of Delhi's slums find themselves in a Catch-22 situation. Public conveniences in the Capital are woefully inadequate, but when they are …

United by water in Bangalore

Women, convenience

Blind to the cause

Rehabilitation authority to ignore controversial projects

Face it

Former slum now has its own newspaper

A determined group of youngsters in Shaheed Nagar who started a weekly newspaper find their objectives are slowly being realised.

Water for slums