BHUBANESWAR: The Government of Odisha on Monday, January 3, asked the Housing and Urban Development…
Tag: Urban Slums
Visakhapatnam MC begins survey for ‘Slum-Free Vizag’
VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) began a two-day survey of 793 slums on Sunday,…
Satellite can advance sustainable development by highlighting poverty
A technique to extrapolate poverty levels in rural settings using satellite data and imaging has…
Future Challenges for Our Cities
According to Darwin, “species that survive are not the largest nor the most powerful, not…
Living on the edge
Urban slums are the visual manifestation of poverty in cities. Nearly a billion people live…