In brief

Urban development

Why real-estate prices are rising fast in Istanbul

Urbanisation

Stages of improving neglected communities’ lives

Social media

Increasingly manipulated forum

Urban lives

My family succeeded in leaving dismal informal housing

Health

Medical myths may be deadly – in Zambia, for instance

Urban life

Rio’s poor have reason to fear the police

Shared spaces

Students live in some of Nairobi’s worst housing

Environment

Book shows rays of hope in climate crisis

Infrastructure

Throughout the camp, houses lack adequate sanitation