High aerial of mixed urban fabrics — courtyards, grids, and towers — suggesting a map of housing types.

Around the World

Interactive world explorer

Select World → Region → Country → City. Unpublished locations remain in the tree so the architecture can grow without manufacturing empty pages.

Housing is a global system, not a single national story.

More than 2.8 billion people live without adequate housing, according to UN-Habitat. That condition includes informal settlements, overcrowding, unaffordable costs, insecurity of tenure, and homelessness. The Housing Future Project treats the world as the starting unit of analysis, then moves through regions, countries, and cities.

Open the World dossier