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Slums

Land of Black Milk

by Stefanie Moshammer,

Class Struggle

by Grace Irwin,

I n every city there is a district which is called “tough” — a district which decent people, afraid of insult or theft, shun in both daylight and darkness. It…

Invisible City

by Justin E. H. Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from a work in progress. Smith’s fourth book, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (Princeton), will be published in June. At the end of August, the oldest…

Gangs of Karachi

by Matthieu Aikins,

Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world’s deadliest cities

Skid row, Los Angeles, 2009

by Will Steacy,

From an ancient cloud

by Yohannes Edemariam,

Getting by in Ethiopia's slums

Planet of slums

by Mike Davis,

Remake of Shadows Covers Epidemic Plastic

Art by Dmitra Lazaridou,

The city that democracy built

by Bob Shacochis,

Mexico and its discontents

by Douglas W. (Douglas Wilton) Payne,

After the peso's collapse, an unemployed population looks north

Readings

by Angelo Franco,