Up to 40,000 people lived in the notorious Glasgow slum of the Gorbals in the late 1940s IT WAS the notoriously poor Glasgow slum which was rife with overcrowding and sewage running in the streets.

As cities in developing nations grow rapidly, they face the same challenges that Western ones did during the industrial era. Informal neighborhoods pop up, with housing that is cheap but overcrowded, ...

Scottish visual artist Diaz tracks his journey out of “the Glasgow slums” in his rousing debut autobiography. The author was born Juan McKelvie in 1977. At a young age, he was separated from his ...

NAIROBI, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Beatrice Oriyo laughed out loud when asked if there was a playground where her three children could play near her home in Kibera, Nairobi's biggest ...

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...