The dice roll is the fundamental engine of numerous games. In a board game, it might determine what type of resources you receive or how far you can move. In tabletop role-playing games, it might ...

Camps continue to sprout up in different areas. Kate Briddell, the director of homeless services at the Baltimore Mayor's office, told the Baltimore Sun that new camps and tents have formed near ...

German architects no longer see settlements that are not planned and organize themselves as a problem, but rather as models. What exactly can German cities learn from them? The centres of German ...

Paul J. Weber, newsperson, Austin, and Eric Gay, photogapher, San Antonio, Texas, for documenting Texas’ quiet but sweeping funding cuts to the 2,300 impoverished border communities known as “colonias ...

One key aspect to be addressed was that of housing and, by extension, the role of shantytowns in the urban landscape. Indeed, after a decade of significant social and economic change, urban employment ...

Faiza Soulaimana, 31, told AFP she had not heard from her aunt in Mayotte since the storm struck on Sunday, wiping out shantytowns, largely severing communications with the islands and leaving a ...

Authorities in Mayotte said many migrants avoided emergency shelters out of fear of deportation, leaving themselves and the precarious shantytowns they inhabit even more vulnerable to the devastation.

With all of the discussion about social media, blogs, and communities, corporations and marketing agencies are actively putting into motion efforts at initiating and maintaining dialogue. The ease ...