Urban outbreaks
How should cities, humanitarian organizations and local communities avoid the next urban pandemic?
Focus: Prison Waterfront
Built on marshlands between a prison and one of the thousands of creeks that make up the Niger delta, the Prison Waterfront neighbourhood is one of many shanty towns to grow up on the outskirts of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Life on Syria Street
The largely urban conflict in Syria has also had a major impact on cities in neighbouring countries. Lebanon, which hosts some 1.2million Syrians, is dealing with complex confessional fault lines.
Urban resilience: a tale of two cities
We could say that today’s rapid urbanization is a tale of two cities. The first is a story of shining high-rises, the second, a tale of sprawling shanty towns. A guest editorial by Fouad Bendimerad.
Mapping a city on the move
How a digital mapping project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania helps local communities take on urban risk, street by street.
A walk through Kigogo
Using an online map they helped developed with local residents, Tanzania Red Cross National Society volunteers offer a tour of the risks and assets of Kigogo, a neighbourhood in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Front line city
As cities take on greater importance — as population centres and economic hubs — they have also become front lines in most of today’s conflicts.
Stateless in the city
Working together to support stateless Shan people in the urban outskirts of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Cities of misery and hope
In the so-called villas miserias of Buenos Aires, migrant communities face marginalization, lack key services and live in neglected neighbourhoods.
Focus: Lives in limbo
In a field hospital at the al Azraq refugee camp, just 100 kilometres from the Syrian border in northern Jordan, a baby is born to a woman fleeing conflict in Syria.