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Thomas Annan's photographs capture lost streets and old buildings of Glasgow in the 19th Century

Thomas Annan was a pioneering Scottish photographer best known for his remarkable documentation of Glasgow’s slums and ...
Publishers Weekly

Slum Boy

Scottish visual artist Diaz tracks his journey out of “the Glasgow slums” in his rousing debut autobiography. The author was born Juan McKelvie in 1977. At a young age, he was separated from his ...
The Atlantic

Slum Clearance at a Profit

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...
Reuters

FEATURE-World's slum populations set to surge as housing crisis bites

NAIROBI, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Beatrice Oriyo laughed out loud when asked if there was a playground where her three children could play near her home in Kibera, Nairobi's biggest ...