The Future of Co-Living Spaces in Affordable Housing In the current world, where the prices of houses have required due to increased urbanization, co-living spaces are proving to be the solution to affordabl...

Retrofitting Old Homes to Make Them Affordable: A Practical Solution for Modern Challenges To meet consumer needs and desires for affordable and sustainable homes, new methods in home construction have impli...

Adaptive Reuse of Vacant Buildings: A Path to Affordable Housing Given the increased challenges in housing delivery, the conversion of abandoned facility has become a sustainable and affordable approach to p...

What is Urban Sprawl: Causes and Impacts Suburban sprawl is a generally known as urban sprawl and is defined as growth of urban regions throughout rural or semi-urban regions. This pattern of development...

What is Gentrification: A Double-Edged Sword Gentrification refers to the progressive revitalization of inner city or urban districts previously considered underdeveloped by middle income earners, businesses...

What is Smart City: The Intersection of Technology and Urban Living According to many scholars, a smart city can be defined as an urban center which is able to make efficient use of new technologies, data and ...

What is Environmental Gentrification: When Green Meets Inequality Environmental gentrification can be explained as a way through which conscience urban changes like green areas, parks, sustainable energies o...

The Hidden Cost of Suburban Sprawl: A Housing Inequality Perspective Suburban sprawl is a rapid outward growth of cities accompanied by a low population density of the extending territory, the latter being a...

Addressing Gentrification Challenges: Strategies for Equitable Urban Development Gentrification refers to a current urban development process that is socially sensitive and whereby urban outer areas undergo ...

Social Costs vs. Economic Benefits of Gentrification Gentrification is a multifaceted social process that alters the conditions and make up of urban communities through processes such as; migration of upscal...

Addressing Housing Inequality: The Role of Local Governments Another feature of housing is it’s inequal distribution which intensifies socio-economic differentiation of a locality. It comes out of societ...

The Economics of Slum Upgradation Programs Because slums are the closest people can get to ‘the city dream,’ they are a reality that characterizes global urbanization and hosts millions of the world’s popula...

Slums vs Informal Settlements: What’s the Difference? It is common to use slum and informal settlement interchangeably within the context of policies by governments and agencies for urban development a...

Exploring Different Types of Houses in India India, famous for its cultural and geographical split and division, has a great deal to offer in terms of housing scenario as well. The types of houses in Ind...

Urbanization in Pakistan: Reasons and Consequences Pro-urbanization has also been on the rise in Pakistan which had seen the size of the population shifting from rural areas to urban areas over the past deca...

Urbanization and Climate Change: The Link Climate change and sociology of cities are among the most significant issues of discuss and analysis within the postindustrial world. These are remarkable phenom...

Urbanization and Slum Formation: The Impact Transit-oriented development or simply city development or growth that has become synonymous with modern progress, has transformed cities globally. Although th...

Slum Tourism: Ethical Concerns and Cultural Insights Tourism to slums, visiting poor neighborhoods, is a phenomenon that has evolved over the past two decades. Ruins almost touristic in Rio de Janeiro, g...

Policy Recommendations for Sustainable Slum Solutions Slum villages are a universal problem affecting over one billion people in urban areas globally. As shelters, and sources of income for many, slums h...

Case Studies: Successful Slum Redevelopment Programs In this brief and thought-provoking book, Davis claims that slums are an international problem, resulting from newly urbanizing societies, poverty, and po...

10 Biggest Slums in the World: Understanding Urban Poverty It must be remembered that slums are part of the current global urban texture, and millions of people live in them. Such communities are overcrowded,...