ABSTRACT: This research delves into the intricate interplay between informal settlements and conventional urban planning in the swiftly urbanizing landscape of Lusaka, Zambia. With urbanization ...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which has begun surveying commercial slums, is considering recovering property tax from floors in slums where commercial activities are being carried out.

Bicycles are the wheels for the planet, say cycling enthusiasts "Go to the slums, find out what in what condition people are staying. States do not have money to provide affordable housing and we ...

Machhar Colony — also known as Muhammadi Colony — is believed to be the oldest and the largest slum area of the metropolitan city. Primarily home to Bengali community, the slum, which is ...

Nearby a Médecins Sans Frontières triage center is the only reminder that this slum area is the epicenter of the mpox epidemic in Kinshasa. There are no posters, no pamphlets or banners warning ...

Nearby a Médecins Sans Frontières triage centre is the only reminder that this slum area is the epicentre of the mpox epidemic in Kinshasa. There are no posters, no pamphlets or banners warning ...

Born and raised in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Reuben slum, Maina overcame significant challenges to achieve success and is now dedicated to empowering the next generation of leaders. "The living ...

A proposal to build a fourplex with several bylaw exemptions was rejected by the city on Thursday night following a wave of objections from neighbours in the affluent Kingsway South neighbourhood ...

He was the last of a generation of African leaders who led their countries out of colonial or white minority rule that included South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Zambia's ...

To meet these financial challenges, we are looking at increasing property tax, imposing property tax on commercial slums, revising premiums [paid by developers] related to the redevelopment of BMC ...