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Why 80% of Singaporeans live in government-built flats

Why 80% of Singaporeans live in government-built flats | Human Interest | Scoop.it
“SUPERCOOL you’re here,” says Eugene, looking like he means it. The young Singaporean is showing visitors around his new apartment, a three-bedroom flat in one of the city-state’s many high-rise blocks. Eugene says he and his new wife can’t wait to start filling the space with babies.

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The best street food on the planet, but Bangkok bans its roadside stalls

The best street food on the planet, but Bangkok bans its roadside stalls | Human Interest | Scoop.it
City has just scooped CNN poll but official says ‘every street vendor will have to move out’ by end of 2017

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In Chicago, Bodies Pile Up at Intersection of ‘Depression and Rage’

In Chicago, Bodies Pile Up at Intersection of ‘Depression and Rage’ | Human Interest | Scoop.it
Over Memorial Day weekend, when The New York Times tracked every shooting in Chicago, the largest concentration of them was in the city’s 11th police district. But why?

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Drone photography captures the dramatic inequality of Nairobi

Drone photography captures the dramatic inequality of Nairobi | Human Interest | Scoop.it
Kenya, the largest economy in East Africa, has some of the starkest inequality in the region. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Nairobi, where the wealthy and middle class live and work next to slums housing some of the country's poorest. American photographer Johnny Miller, supported by Code for Africa and the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Slumscapes project, ha

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Divided cities: South Africa's apartheid legacy photographed by drone

Divided cities: South Africa's apartheid legacy photographed by drone | Human Interest | Scoop.it
Johnny Miller used a drone to take aerial photographs of the gulf in living conditions for the poor and the wealthy in South Africa

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Brixton's gentrification: How did the area's character change so much?

Brixton's gentrification: How did the area's character change so much? | Human Interest | Scoop.it
I met up with a friend recently and we lunched on the first floor of the Ritzy cinema bar in central Brixton in South London. As I placed my order, I remembered that the establishment where I was standing was the place where staff campaigned and went out on strike for a living wage.

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The drone video that sums up global inequality

The drone video that sums up global inequality | Human Interest | Scoop.it
Johnny Miller has caused quite a stir with his aerial images of South Africa’s divided communities. He explains the origins of the Unequal Scenes project

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The property billboards that reveal the truth about Britain’s luxury housing market

The property billboards that reveal the truth about Britain’s luxury housing market | Human Interest | Scoop.it
The glossy advertising around high-end building sites in major cities show expensive developments bustling with white thirtysomethings. Who are they aimed at, exactly?

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Wealthy London council accused of 'social cleansing'

Wealthy London council accused of 'social cleansing' | Human Interest | Scoop.it
A wealthy central London council is being accused of social cleansing over plans to move some of the area's poorest residents miles out of the borough.  Conservative-controlled Westminster City Council has approved plans to buy 24 new one- and two-bed flats 11 miles away in Hounslow town centre despite the protests of its Labour-controlled local authority.

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Class-Divided Cities: London Edition

Class-Divided Cities: London Edition | Human Interest | Scoop.it
There are deep divisions in one of the world's most powerful global cities.

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Where Are The World’s Worst Slums?

The Evolution Of South Africa's Skyscraper Slum http://testu.be/1LDJ60n Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml According to the UN, almost a billion peopl

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Bangkok's Klong Toey Slum - BORGEN

Bangkok's Klong Toey Slum - BORGEN | Human Interest | Scoop.it
The Klong Toey slum, one of Bangkok's 5,500 slum communities, covers an area of around a square mile and is home to around 100,000 people.

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