Over the next two decades, $40 trillion USD will be invested in bridging the global deficit in environmental infrastructure. At least half of this investment
By Susan Yoon The townships of Inanda, Ntuzuma, and KwaMashu (INK) were built as satellite settlements of the City of Durban during apartheid, pre-1986. The region is
By Toby Simpson Soweto is located in south west periphery of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa and is comprised of some 32 different townships (City of
By Heather Zanoni Gap Kibera is made of 12 villages and is the largest slum in Kenya. Located in Nairobi, 5 kilometers from the central
By Shetal Shah Manshiat Nasser in the Governorate of Cairo, Egypt is a mega-slum built on government-owned land in close proximity to Cairo’s city center.
By Oisin O’Brien The Cape Flats is a region of metropolitan Cape Town located to the south and east of the city center. A conglomerate
By Lauren Himiak Living in a City of the Dead After 1973, government policy in Egypt shifted from a socialist, public-sector economy to an open-door,
By Pablo Arboleda Diagnostic Agege is one of 16 Local Government Areas of Metropolitan Lagos. It is located in 11 square kilometers area in northern
By Lina Federiko Gap Masina slum is located in southeast region of Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa lies on the left
In December of 2011, emerging sustainable development leaders gathered in Professor Shagun Mehrotra’s Climate Change and Cities course to discuss climate risks and responses in eight
