How reducing inequality will make our cities safer
Urban violence concentrates in specific places, among certain people and at very particular times Image: REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
Sameh Wahba
Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice, World Bank
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