Monday, August 29, 2011

Do we have to learn to live with slums?

The World Today

Do we have to learn to live with slums?

 read on Paul Mason/BBC News

This an interesting read on slums as part of every progressing city ! I'm not sure about how the Western countries have handled this phenomenon but this is the reality in a third world country like the Philippines!

The slums of Manila, sometimes in the midst of squalor and putrid canal waters, have become a "world" of its own...a unique government system, special culture and social hierarchy;and a "business environment" which has evolved out of a need to survive in the concrete jungles of the city!

Slums equal survival of the fittest in a growing city!Or perhaps , in a struggling city?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14544034

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