'I had to wait in a line to use the public toilet'

For his book Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World (Routledge), author Robert Neuwirth lived in places that many of us strive to avoid slums, or squatter colonies, of some of the......

When Brazil's shanty-town put on show 'for the English'

Members of England's World Cup squad made a flying visit to Brazil's largest shanty-town on Monday, yet observers were left wondering if it achieved little more than 'para inglês ver'.......