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In Medellín, A Scavenger’s Dump Turned Community Garden

The main open dump in the Colombian city evolved over decades from an informal home to scavengers to becoming a focus of communal resurgence.

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French Newspaper Liberation On “Endless” Calais Jungle

Libération, Feb. 23, 2016 “Calais: An Endless Jungle,” writes French daily Libération on the front page of its Tuesday edition, as hundreds of migrants living in the so-called “Calais jungle” in northern France are facing an 8 p.m. deadline to move out. The left-wing Paris daily describes the evacuation and scheduled dismantling of the southern […]

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The Perverse Effect Of Street Art On Neighborhood Gentrification

The most memorable graffiti and wall murals are often demolished by the force of urban real estate development projects.

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