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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

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

beijing got rid of many hutongs, and i think 1,000,000 people easily were in them. What was worse is that they built walls along the major highways to hide the existence of many others.