Rewind radio: Slums 101; Too Many Books - review

Paul Mason was, where foreigners rarely walk on the positive agenda of slum dwellers in Manila

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(R4) | iPlayer If you've ever been to Africa, he was a poor neighborhood. In almost all countries, even the most stable neighborhoods seem to work directly from the airport to the city proper, as a disaster hors d'oeuvres, even if you never leave the hotel chic, you became aware them. Most people turn on air conditioning and jet lag not give the eyes. Some might consider, and think, and wonder. What we do is to go

Paul Mason

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have asked for huge planners and anyone who thinks about other people. He had not done in Africa, but Manila, among the most densely populated cities in the world, and found the Estero de San Miguel. You do not need pictures. "A bridge over a common channel in Manila. There is a long curve of the water and if the eye can see, the huts. Trash. Wash and gray tin and scrap wood, and rats, and children. It is heartbreaking poverty-stricken. "

But inside, with a lateral tunnel, he found a story far from expectations. There was no grace to laugh. Children clean one after the other under impossible conditions in a dark tunnel of a meter wide. A young woman was able to run a small shop in one side of the dark tunnel, sells biscuits, and, surprisingly, subject to a degree in business administration. There were, of course, in horror, and there is a danger, as someone pointed out, to glorify the heroes of the resistance and calling slum dwellers - allowing authorities to prevent think. But instead of them, or us, to be allowed to ignore the phenomenon, as Mason pointed out, it's time to not only accept the slums, but the work we do with them, rather than simply move to another place where there is not even working. In 2050, rural poverty on the rise everywhere, it is estimated that 2 million people living in slums around the world. It would horrify the planners of old, but probably have to learn to live in the slums, which means the difference between the so-called "upscale neighborhood" - well, insurance, organized - and extremely dangerous. But the Eradication simple do not seem to be a sustainable solution. What is a good program.

problems there and not put into perspective the problem of having to throw half of its library of middle class, where the reduction or in motion, and find you

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. But Sarah Cuddon 30 minutes, with a few large respondents were fascinating and managed to put many of our dilemmas in the short term and not overloaded. Joan, the widow, was eager to cut a collection of her late husband ("stencil nodes Lana : East Anglia Golden Fleece