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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have visited the huge slums of Iraq and found families living in homes with barely a roof to cover them, with infestations of insects everywhere, and with raw sewage seeping under their doors.

A photo blogger based in the city of Voronezh, located in central Russia not far from the Ukranian border, has taken a series of striking photographs (including an animated panorama) of a small, forgotten slum hiding in the center of an otherwise modern and populous urban area.

The real problem is that China s authoritarian system faces little opposition when it decides to bulldoze a shantytown that stands in the way of a new airport.

So Sudhir the suburban boy who had never really been in the inner city dutifully took his clipboard and, you know, walked down to this housing project.

This is a place called the Madangiri Settlement Colony, which is a very developed slum about 25 minutes outside New Delhi, where I met these characters who showed me around for the day.

Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the world s squatter sites where a billion people now make their homes to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour.

Just Jo writes in his post You Have No Idea Sir jee that while he has not seen Slumdog Millionaire that the slums featured in the movie are a reality in Mumbai, India.

Her second husband left home when Dandan was just over a month old. She was forced to return to her parents home in a shantytown and lived with her daughter in a store room. She earned her living as a cleaner in a department store.

This is a computer installed in the entrance to their slum by a revolutionary social entrepreneur called Sugata Mitra who has conducted the most radical experiments, showing that children, in the right conditions, can learn on their own with the help of computers.