Creative Ideas From Latin America
Canadian cities are feeling the strains of social polarization and growing ranks of very poor. Federico Burone says Latin American cities have some creative answers.
"At first glance, Canadian cities and their counterparts in Latin America have little in common. The prosperous new suburbs that radiate out from the cores of many Canadian cities are a world away from the impromptu migrant settlements that sprout on the periphery of Latin America's urban centres. While Canadians worry about sprawl and the drain of resources from the inner city to the new suburbs, the question that dominates in most Latin American countries is how to provide even basic services for these new, marginal communities, and how to integrate the incoming population into the existing urban culture."
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