Slums: Cities of Tomorrow

Slums: Cities of Tomorrow

7.5IMDb Score
Released:2014-04-25
Duration:81 min
Country:Canada
Director:Jean-Nicolas Orhon
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Overview:

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of Tomorrow challenges conventional thinking to propose that slums are in fact the solution, not the problem, to urban overcrowding caused by the massive migration of people to cities. (Lynne Fernie, HotDocs)

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