The Favela Finds Its Own Uses for High-Rises

http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/6/the_city_that_built_itself

*Nice illustrations. Well, not "nice," but *good and useful* illustrations.

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"Because of Pérez Jiménez's tendency toward self-glorification, two-thirds of the blocks in 23 de Enero were still empty as of January 1958, years after their completion, waiting to be dedicated on the next anniversary of the dictator's ascension. But on the twenty-third of the month, as Pérez Jiménez was overthrown, rumors spread through the subsequent cit