Residents can trade discarded plastic for "green points", or credits, they can redeem for services such as drinking water, toilets, showers, laundry and even meals.

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Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has ...

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The Norwegian slum existed during America's Prohibition era, which lasted from 1920 to 1933. In the absence of legal liquor, ...

Korail does not fit neatly into Dhaka’s urban picture, but maybe that is what makes it what it is — a place constantly creating, rebuilding, and living on its own terms ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the weather. The droughts and flood events that hit her neighbourhood are ...