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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