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The distribution of green areas in cities is usually done unevenly, and they are not accessed by their citizens in the same way.

The political landscape may have changed, but the landscape of our cities remains largely the same as apartheid-era South Africa. The borders are no longer legally enforced, but their legacy is still keeping South Africans separated, and divided we fall.

The photographs are part of Johnny Miller’s ‘Unequal Scenes’ project, in which he documents class disparity across the world.

Rapid urbanisation and government failure to deliver adequate housing are among the driving forces behind the proliferation of informal settlements across South African cities and towns. These informal settlements are notorious for their perilous and unhealthy conditions.

The accident of where you were born, who your family is and what kind of economic and social circumstances you’re born into has a really massive and material effect on what possibilities there are for your life and for your community,” explains Dr Naomi Roux, a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town. South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, where a huge amount of the nation’s wealth remains concentrated i...

Cities where rich and poor sit starkly side by side By Charlotte Irwin of Lovemoney | Divided cities Rich and poor live side by side in some of the worlds biggest cities. In his photo series Unequal Scenes, Cape Town-based photographer Johnny Miller used a drone to capture this stark contrast in living conditions around the globe. Click through to take a look at these incredible, and sometimes heartbreaking, images. All dollar amounts in US dollars. © Johnny Miller

13 Shares In Mexico City, COVID-19 has spread in line with existing patterns of spatial segregation and inequalities. While the poorest neighbourhoods have been the hardest hit, many of the wealthiest have seen very few cases, writes  Máximo Ernesto Jaramillo Molina (INDESIG and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity). In January, Reuters reported that Mexico had surpassed India in confirmed deaths from COVID-19, giving it the world’s third-highest death toll. In Mexi...

Most people are familiar with the concept of social and economic inequality, but although it affects a large part of the worlds population, it is still somewhat abstract for many people. Photographer Johnny Miller intends to make it visible through his project Unequal Scenes, capturing images of spatial inequality from a very revealing perspective: aerial imagery. The project started in South Africa, a country that is socially and spatially marked by apartheid, and now has been taken to Brazil ...