Green Rural Design Aims to Slow Urban Slum Growth

msafari2425/CC BY 2.0. Street scene in Addis Ababa.Life in a well-planned city can be about as green as it gets, but rapid urbanization in the developing world is taxing the ability of cities to provide adequate housing, sanitation, and other infrastructure for the people streaming into their ever-growing boundaries.In Istanbul, where I live, the population has roughly doubled since 1990, with nearly 1,000 people, most from rural

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