Slums: Cities of Tomorrow

Slums: Cities of Tomorrow

 

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1h 21m 2014 HD

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of Tomorrow challenges conventional thinking to propose that slums are in fact the solution, not the problem, to urban overcrowding caused by the massive migration of people to cities. (Lynne Fernie, HotDocs)


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