As cities in developing nations grow rapidly, they face the same challenges that Western ones did during the industrial era. Informal neighborhoods pop up, with housing that is cheap but overcrowded, ...

On January 8, 1883, the Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children received its first patient – a five year-old boy with curvature of ...

Twenty-five old pictures which show the social history of Glasgow during the 1950s The Fifties were a decade that was mainly focused on the recovery from World War Two with Glasgow being far from an ...

Scottish visual artist Diaz tracks his journey out of “the Glasgow slums” in his rousing debut autobiography. The author was born Juan McKelvie in 1977. At a young age, he was separated from his ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...