In a world where the social media scroll often feels like a blur of dance trends, polished travel vlogs, and heavily edited lives, a green CNG-run auto rickshaw in Dhaka carries something far rarer.

GlobalPost's Erik German and Solana Pine look at the coming dystopia that is urbanization. In the five-part, the authors look at Dhaka, Bangladesh, which by 2025 the U.N. predicts will be home to more ...

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the most crowded city in the world. More than 19.5 million people live in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It is the most densely populated city in the country ...

Nearly 500,000 migrants flow into Dhaka, Bangladesh, each year, leaving the countryside to try to make a living in the big city. By 2025, the United Nations estimates Dhaka will grow to about 20 ...

DHAKA, July 19, 2017 — With 36 percent of the country’s urban population living in Greater Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh has become one of the world’s most densely populated cities. To achieve its ...

Minus Akther wakes up before dawn every day in a 100-square-foot shack she shares with her husband and two children. She opens the creaking door, snakes through the zigzagging alleys, and waits for a ...