Martin Scorsese’s new film, “Gangs of New York,” has positioned the director as the best-known chronicler of the infamous 19th century slum called the Five Points. But 160 years before ...

Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white ...

In 19th-century New York, even tenements were ranked. Some were considered too good for the Irish, who were relegated to densely packed hovels in the urban shanty town of Five Points, on the Lower ...

On an overcast February morning in 2012, archaeologists searching for evidence of Manchester's 19th-century slums peeled open the concrete lid of one of these car parks and made a startling ...

From 19th century Sheffield slums to 21st century apartments. By The Newsroom. Published 7th Jan 2019, 11:07 BST. Updated 9th Jan 2019, 11:18 BST. The Trinity Street site.

Across the world, slums are home to a billion people, ... when in the 19th Century they cleared out places like this in one generation do we, in an era of globalisation, ...

Not only are today's slums larger than in the 19th century, but they are more dense. Though they are low-rise structures, the square footage is tiny with a lot of people living in each shack. They ...