urbanism

Jessica Furseth is a London-based journalist who writes about culture and urbanism.

Vidigal and the other slums of Brazil—known as favelas—are testaments to years of government neglect and unchecked urbanism.

Increasingly, cities long left to rot are rising from the ashes of blight as they try to become shining examples of new urbanism.

The damage done to people by megacity urbanism is most pronounced in poorer countries.