The lawsuit pitted Black property owners in the historic Railroad District downtown against the city of Ocean Springs.

Because of the uproar, the city rescinded the slum or blight designation and drastically shrunk the urban renewal area, removing the Black neighborhood and other acreage included. “The ruling ...

The Railroad District, a historic area of downtown settled by Black residents, was one of six areas the Board of Aldermen included in urban renewal districts that the city declared “slum or ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

Trump has called Gaza a “big real estate site,” and wants to give it the West End treatment so it can become the “Riviera of ...

Growing urban populations, more public awareness of pollution and ambitious redevelopment plans propel big drinking water and wastewater treatment investment in two key cities.

Before the highway was built, the Laurel-Clayton neighborhood of Worcester provided a sanctuary and home for the local Black ...

Dharavi, in central Mumbai, is considered one of the largest slums in Asia, but deep within this neighborhood, below the ...

Walking through the crowded streets of the Pakadjuma neighborhood in Kinshasa ... triage center is the only reminder that this slum area is the epicenter of the mpox epidemic in Kinshasa.

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

To Moses, barreling through the Franklin and Mulberry corridor was seen as the path of least resistance, and had an added benefit – the clearance of what he saw as slum neighborhoods ...