Orange Farm Township is situated 25 miles (40 km) south of Johannesburg and is home to more than 300,000 inhabitants, most of them Zulu.

The Appirampattu Village Center pairs two structures with a stair rising between them, meant to symbolize the interdependence of individual study and learning in a group.

With slogans like “Jobs, Not Jails” and “Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job,” Father Gregory Boyle (or G-dog, as ex-gang members call him) designed the center to provide job training for gang members, many from rival groups, and help them fi nd work.

Mason’s Bend, located deep in Alabama’s former cotton belt, is home to four extended families. Most live in trailers or poorly constructed homes.

Though favelas are typically seen on the fringes of a city, Rio’s unique topography of mountains and sea forced squatters to build within city limits. For over 100 years, simple makeshift houses climbed on top of one another up Rio’s steep surrounding hillsides.

Inspired by Gandhi and moved to respond to India’s famine of 1967, famine Bunker Roy moved from his family’s affluent suburb to Tilonia, a rural community in the state of Rajasthan.