Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

In 1901, the city government of Amsterdam passed the Woningwet (“Housing Act”). Greenlighting the long-awaited demolition of ...

NORWOOD, Ohio (WXIX) - Fire roared through a 19th-century home under renovation in Norwood early Thursday, causing the roof to collapse. The house at Hudson and Floral avenues has been vacant ...

The liberal pundit was hosting a book party at the Century, the private arts-and-letters club she’d joined during the pandemic, for her friend and fellow Centurion the media critic Margaret ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

At the same time, affordable housing and other fair resolutions to Karachi's housing problems are not on the government's agenda, meaning slums will continue to pop up. The provincial government ...

Ahead of the Delhi Assembly election, the AAP, BJP, and Congress have sharpened their pitch on slums and are courting the city's over three million slum dwellers. The residents of the 675 slums in ...

Billboard reveals the Top Hot 100 Songs of the 21st Century, and we’re sharing the top three that dominated the Hot 100 from January 1, 2000, through December 28, 2024. What’s your favorite ...

These modern concerns bear a striking resemblance to Butler's 19th-century call for pausing mechanical progress. Even if machines never become truly intelligent, Butler's predictions about our ...

The almost three lakh households in Delhi’s 675 slums and 1,700 jhuggi-jhopri (JJ) clusters, or unauthorised colonies, make up almost 10% of the electorate and, as a result of their sheer size, form ...

However, his legacy extends far beyond science. In the 19th century, Wallace’s observations were striking. British imperialism was at its zenith, and the Industrial Revolution was fueling a ...

Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year-old Danilo Dolci outraged official sensibilities with a book depicting the miseries of Palermo’s slum dwellers. Eight in a Bed.