Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico City, Mexico
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Nezahualcóyotl, or Ciudad Neza, is a municipality of over one million people within Mexico City’s metropolitan area. It’s street plans follow a standardized layout — public amenities with green space confined within mega-blocks.
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By staying in Neza, once a dried-up lake bed of shanties set up after World War Two, residents have built a community of contrasts, where the comfortable and the destitute coexist.
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Neza, now home to 1.2 million people, is an example of how slums – rather than being bulldozed – can be supported and upgraded to create thriving suburbs.
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Trim homes sit alongside hovels covered with tattered rags, and horse-drawn wagons filled with garbage clatter past shiny late-model cars.
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This, say experts, is the urbanization of the future.
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Ref: http://www.reuters.com/
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