"We are living in fear," said Sani Mohamed, a videographer in the capital who said displaced people were sleeping rough on the outskirts of the city.
A year after the Crash, there were about 14,000 feral kids between 14 and 18 living rough in the outskirts of Berlin (a district that was circled by a "Ring" of avenues, hence the term).
Jodi Hauptman, the MoMA curator who organized the show, writes about Seurat's drawings of the rough-and-tumble outskirts of Paris, many of which are reproduced here for the first time.
One very hot and humid evening in Cairo this past June, a trio of young men dressed in stonewashed jeans, overtight T-shirts and multiple necklaces rolled up to a homemade stage in Madinat el-Salam, a rough area on the outskirts of Cairo known mostly for its blocky government housing.
It was developed in the 19th century by porteños, men who lived on the outskirts of the rough port city of Buenos Aires, and moved on to the city's drawing rooms and European cafe society before being introduced to New Yorkers in 1913 by the ballroom dancers Vernon and Irene Castle.
Further, life as a streetwalker indeed a very tough and risky job may be a better and more profitable option than going back to Benin City, where life in the poor outskirts isn't just rough and dangerous but is also lacking in opportunity.
Events lead Kieron from the inner city to his new home on its outskirts, and include tangles with rough kids, visits to watch the soccer at the Glasgow Rangers' home ground, stints in two new schools, clashes with his brother, faltering steps into a first job and a taste of financial independence.
I visited one such low-cost printing press on the outskirts of Jaipur, where screaming machines devoured rough newsprint and spewed slightly faded printouts.
Mr. Kato's neighborhood on the outskirts of Kampala is known as a rough one, where several people have recently been beaten to death with iron bars.
For now, her horizons stretch no further than the poor district of Tabata Kisiwani on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, where home is a rough and badly patched tumble of concrete and corrugated iron rooms, and life is punctuated by regular bouts of hunger and malaria.
