The residents of the Karnani Estate terrace are living in a slum which they realise but do not want to accept... Calcutta's iconic multistorey building — the Karnani Estate — is opposite the prominent ...

The new study "Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World" finds that one billion people living in slums face greater risks from climate change.

Today, 1 billion people live in urban slums, and 1.5 billion people live in countries affected ... as well as climate change and disaster risks. Building sustainable communities—whether they are ...

Like Karnani Estate, the storied five-storey building at 209, AJC Bose Road in the heart ... Programme (UN-Habitat), the UN agency promoting sustainable urban development, characterises slums as ...