Before you play

What This Slum Figure Means

This game compares the share of urban population living in slums.

  • The figure is about housing conditions and access to basic services in urban areas, not a census of one visible neighborhood.
  • It is a proportion of city life, not a morality tale about migration.
  • Urban growth can be real progress and still be profoundly unequal in where it lets people land.

City success stories usually crop the parts that do not fit the brochure.