Megaslums Salvation or Sinkhole?;

摘要

What is to become of the thousands of massive squatter settlements that have sprouted tumor-like from the world's biggest cities, and to their nearly 1 billion residents? Will they transform themselves into functional working-class neighborhoods through the twin miracles of microscale entrepreneurship and macroscale infrastructure investment? Or will they spiral ever downward into drug-fueled violence, endemic disease and seething social unrest?