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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 world's 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 Mexico City, the continent’s second-largest urban centre, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to over 521,00...

Most people are familiar with the concept of social and economic inequality, but although it affects a large part of the world's 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 to document scenarios in which extreme poverty and wealth coexist within a few meters, showing how ...