Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...
TheTravel on MSN18d
Built For Luxury Living, This Giant Structure Became The "World's Tallest" Urban Slum—But It's Bouncing Back
This structure in Africa went from tallest building in the southern hemisphere to tallest slum in the world in just a few ...
Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
By Amit Dave, Gloria Dickie and Shilpa Jamkhandikar AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of ...
A slum with 700 people living on the terrace of a multistorey Calcutta building
Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...
How a coat of paint is protecting the health of some of this city’s poorest residents
The initiative, covering 400 households, is part of a global scientific trial exploring the impact of indoor heat on health ...
The Telegraph23d
A Kolkata story: A slum with hundreds of people on the terrace of a multistorey building
The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...
Indian slums get cool roofs to beat the summer heat
In the informal settlements of India’s western Gujarat state, hundreds of roofs have been painted in a reflective, white ...
The Conversation on MSN25d
Households Are Burning Plastic Waste As Fuel For Cooking And Heating In Slums The World Over
(MENAFN- The Conversation) Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful ...
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Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...