Entries tagged ‘Infrastructure’
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Through Illegal Pipes and Shady Cartels, Water Flows Into a Slum
By law, Nairobi’s municipal water must reach its informal settlements, but often the pipelines stop right past the edge of the slum. How it traverses those last few miles is a small miracle.
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When Tokyo Was a Slum
Today’s slums are developing incrementally, constructed by the people who live there, with little regulation — a form of urbanism that local officials often malign. But just a few decades ago, Tokyo, a city that’s now widely seen as one of the world’s greatest metropolises, was built in similar fashion.
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An Unexpected Economic Boom Brings Questions About Who Benefits
Since Ghana started pumping oil in 2010, Accra has been blessed with one of the world’s fastest growing economies. But informal sector workers still piece their livelihoods together bit by bit.
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Lima Roars to Life, Thanks, In Part, To Its Informal Settlements
The Peruvian capital of Manuel Vigo’s youth was a quiet and dodgy place ringed by informal settlements. Today, those settlements have become the city, and the streets crackle with energy.
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