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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eastern edge of Cairo (pop. 12 million), a city in which the population density of some areas runs as high as 300,000 per sq. mi. (more than four times the density of Manhattan), there is a huge graveyard known as the City of the Dead. It is dead no longer: several hundred thousand Cairenes have established homes among and even inside the tombs. "It is not like everyone thinks," says Abdullah Mahmoud, 65, who has been living in one of these vaults for 30 years. His wife and six children live there too. "These tombs are bigger than apartments...
...their 20s, all have jobs, and the extra incomes have enabled the Huangs to buy a 14-in. black-and-white TV set, a radio-cassette player and a few other luxury goods. But all five family members have to live in one room. Their 150 sq. ft. of floor space does not provide enough for five beds; they solved that problem by raising the ceiling enough to create a small loft. Together with two other families, who also live in one room each, they cook in a communal kitchen downstairs. The three families share a public toilet about...
...housing shortage has become the main problem that hinders development in Shanghai," says the city's Communist Party chief, Chen Guodong. The authorities say that they built 4.2 million sq. yds. of new housing last year and moved 68,000 families into new homes...
...city keeps growing by nearly 150,000 inhabitants a year. "Officially, they speak of 30 to 40 sq. ft. of housing per capita," says one foreign expert, "but at the core it's more like 20 sq. ft. and in some sections only 16 sq. ft. That's barely standing room...
...slave markets." You want your lawn mowed, some boscage trimmed; you drive by, wave a bill, they hop in. They are industrious, trustworthy, and at night they melt back into an area known to all as East Los Angeles, although it is an area much larger than the 7.4 sq. mi. the city defines as East Los Angeles. It is "where the Mexicans live...