Urban slums like Nairobi s Kibera home to over one million people remain largely untouched by government services.

Urban slums like Nairobi s Kibera  home to over one million people remain largely untouched by government services.

Tropical climates and urban slums are humanity s front line against pandemics, and they should be equipped properly.

And you go to a nice dense place like this slum in Mumbai.

Africa s Urban Farmers

This is Kibera, which is the largest slum in East Africa.

Education is the only way out of the ghetto for many Roma.

Sudhir, on the other hand, got right back walked down to the housing project.

City officials often have sticky fingers.

Pigeons are very bothersome birds in cities.

The gangsters of the city were organized in gangs.

Municipal authorities of Vologda express their gratitude to veterans

City officials have categorically denied that accusation.

Mexico City employees working on debris removal.

We could see the lights of the town in the distance.

This is the squatter community in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Bombay, India, what's called Mumbai these days.

The Bwaise slum is located five minutes from Kampala's Central Business District.

Urban and rural areas subvert each other.

So you see some interesting, typical, urban things.

More and more people are moving to urban areas.

Copenhagen is one of the most bicycle friendly cities in the world.

Street art turns the city streets into open galleries.

The corpses were catapulted over the city walls, infecting the inhabitants.

And most of that growth is not in the cities, but in the slums that surround them.

If it receives positive feedback from citizens, the City will expand the project.

Passengers are packed in like sardines on city buses.

Urban people still have an inner urge to see the world, hunger for nature.

The answer is obvious city dwellers riot in the countryside, people just starve.

Migration to urban centers is causing new cities to emerge and existing ones to expand.

The fighting prostitutes from the first City still hold a security perimeter around their native slums, against the besieging forces of darkness.

Intense hours long downpours flood the roads in most urban areas.

The people from the cities marvelled at their generosity and the abundance of food on the tables.

Are these harbingers of a robust recovery for the financial sector, or just urban myths?

But yesterday the city called them and said, Look, we're going to have to tear it down.

After the Countess had left, a friend a high official's wife arrived and gave Anna all the Petersburg news.

Through the adoption of this measure, the local government of Zamora is trying to reduce the deficit that affects so many local Spanish councils.

She studies social movements, urban protest and digital media in post Soviet countries.

The main challenge is not infrastructure and urban facilities, however important they are.

Fearing the costs of an invasion of Gaza s urban alleys, Israel handed a strategic victory to Hamas.

The municipal authorities have been unable to remove snow from all but several main streets in the city.

In the world s poorest nations, city dwellers have always farmed for subsistence.

The city government wants to set up special cycle lanes. However, a lot of drivers oppose the idea.

The violent demolition has sparked a wave of indignation online. Billionaire Henry Sy's SM Development Corporation (SMDC) owns the 9.7 hectare lot which it plans to clear for the construction of condominiums and commercial establishments.

Consider Katatura, a shantytown on the outskirts of Windhoek into which the former apartheid regime forced tens of thousands of blacks in the 1950 s and 1960 s.

Moreover, investment in public infrastructure and urban facilities will not create industrial over capacity instead, it will provide long term public consumption durables that households and companies will use for years to come.