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The city is often seen as a space of opportunity, where dreams can come true. This is often an illusion, seen by those who experience a socio-economically privileged life briefly glimpsing down at the poorer areas of a city. This is the illusion of the city at the heart of Katherine Boo's Beyond the Beautiful Forevers. In this book Davis looks at the same illusion on a global scale, pointing out the paucity of the city as an area of development in the face of a range of factors. Particularly cap
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