Pavements of Gold

World | 2001

Urban poverty has been described as one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. The figures are stark: in 1950, the number of people living in urban areas amounted to 300 million. At the start of the new century, that figure had multiplied almost ten-fold, to 2.85 billion - or almost half the world's total population. And the flow of rural migrants arriving in the world's …