I saw grottoes and secret gardens and places I'd love to hide as a kid, if I could only breathe underwater.

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

Urban slums and their youth are the front line for any such efforts.

And he spent the last 10 years of his life in two places only, the slums and the state prison, where he spent the last two years before he ended up sitting on this rock there.

The slum estimations forecast that there will be 1.4 billion slum dwellers by 2020, if it is assumed that current proportions of slums to urban populations remain valid during the forthcoming five year periods, until 2020.

It is not the case that slums undermine prosperity, not the working slums they help create prosperity.

I had an office in those days which bordered a slum, an urban slum, so there was a dividing wall between our office and the urban slum.

Urban development promoting jobs, upgrading slums and developing alternatives to new slum formation

There are many slums in Mexico.

By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers as proposed in the Cities Without Slums initiative.

I dropped down in this ice hole, just through that hole that you just saw, and I looked up under the underside of the ice, and I was dizzy I thought I had vertigo.

It is widely assumed that the earliest human artworks are the stupendously skillful cave paintings that we all know from Lascaux and Chauvet.

The UN Habitat Government of Kenya slum upgrading programme is located at the Athi River and at Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa.

The problem of slums could not be eliminated overnight and long term plans were necessary, but poverty was the root cause of slums.

This innovation is from the slums of Rio.

C. Slum Upgrading Facility

When I was a kid growing up in the South Bronx, inner city ghetto in New York, I was surrounded by evil, as all kids are who grew up in an inner city.

There are things they care about.

UN Habitat research priorities address the following issues slums and urban poverty, secure tenure, market eviction and gentrification, rental housing within slums and the implications for slum upgrading, housing rights, and natural disasters or conflict, as well as gender equality in housing access.

So, that's Kibera, the largest squatter community in Nairobi.

And right next to where I used to work, there was a slum.

Let's go all over the world and photograph every single slum around the world.

The slum upgrading programme continues to constitute a path breaking process, in which each stage contributes significantly towards achieving the Millennium Declaration target on slums.

For the developed countries, the figure was 6 per cent.

(m) To achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020, recognizing the urgent need for the provision of increased resources for affordable housing and housing related infrastructure, prioritizing slum prevention and slum upgrading, and to encourage support for the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation and its Slum Upgrading Facility

Achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2015, recognizing the urgent need for the provision of increased resources for affordable housing and housing related infrastructure, prioritizing slum prevention and slum upgrading as well as increased contributions to the United Nations Human Settlements Foundation and its Slum Upgrading Facility

Achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2015, recognizing the urgent need for the provision of increased resources for affordable housing and housing related infrastructure, prioritizing slum prevention and slum upgrading and increasing contributions to the United Nations Human Settlements Foundation and its Slum Upgrading Facility

In the urban slums, the girls tend to stay away.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

He brought me to the door of the court and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

He brought me to the door of the court and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime they know not the light.

And he brought me to the door of the court and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime they know not the light.

And he brought me to the door of the court and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

Based on the definition and selected indicators, it had been concluded that 72 per cent of the urban population in Africa, 48 per cent in Asia and 26 per cent in Latin America were slum dwellers.

After that day, everyone in the favela gave me the green light.

These people are valuable as a group.

Yeah, I'm a poor black child from the ghetto.

This is Kibera, Kenya, one of the largest slums of Africa.

Social capital in the slums is at its most urban and dense.

So one thing slammed up against another, such as in Sao Paulo here.

Monitoring target 11, on improving the lives of slum dwellers

And so in Providencia, for example, in the favela, we have a cultural center running there.