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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

but hutongs were simply traditional neighborhoods. they weren't "slums" at least in context of the rest of the city.