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Multiple cooking gas cylinders in a truck caught fire and exploded on Monday in Mumbai's biggest slum of Dharavi, where hundreds of thousands live in crowded, squalid conditions, local authorities ...

Series in which a group of young people are put through their paces as they embark on a crash course in urban survival in some of the world's biggest slums.

Iyer, Lakshmi, John D. Macomber, and Namrata Arora. "Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-004, July 2009. (Revised June 2011.) ...

In recent years, this population shift has become a deluge. Africa is, and for the coming decade will remain, the most rapidly urbanizing area of the world. UN-HABITAT reports that 72 percent of urban ...

But all coexist in the dynamic ecosystem that is Dharavi. The slum, one of Asia’s largest, occupies over two sq km of prime real estate in India’s financial capital of Mumbai. Up to a million ...

Strewn across public lands, railway tracks and water streams, Kibera, the world’s third largest slum, is an imposing sight. Located just three miles from the vibrant, cosmopolitan charms of Nairobi, ...