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					Originally Posted by taxwonk  I was thinking of LA and Atlanta, where I am given to understand it has occurred.  It sounds like you're saying it happens outside the US as well, at least in Beijing? | 
	
 Rio will do something about its favelas (shantytown slums), but it will have to be a monumental effort, given that up to 1 million people live there in 500 different slums.  
http://www.macalester.edu/courses/ge...d/thefavel.htm