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urban issues (megacities (there are over 30 megacities (LA 15.6 million,…
urban issues
megacities
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The distribution of megacities in the world is spread across all the continents except from australia
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Self-help schemes
what it does- Governments in brazil provide building materials like cheap concrete breeze blocks and roofing tiles, the community and people themselves do the work to build their own homes providing free labour
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disadvantages- People have been seling their improved home for a profit and moving to another favela
25% of rios population live here and not everyone has access to this scheme
challenges
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economic
Lack of well paid, formal jobs so people have to look for work each day
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opportunities
social
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People are so poor they help each other out , the community comes together
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Counter-urbanisation - when people move from urban areas to rural areas this doesn't happen very often
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Urban areas are cities or towns e.g southampton, london