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 Stories About: deforestation AND land degradation AND Mexico AND placemaking AND pollution and waste AND population AND water pollution AND wilderness
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Shanty Shanty Shanty
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28 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Shanty Shanty Shanty Despite its terrible environmental rap, Mexico City remains one of the greenest cities in the world, with more than half the city's acreage designated as open space and fully 25 percent blanketed with forest. Unfortunately, all that is being threatened by the city's uncontrolled urban sprawl, most of it in the form o ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, land degradation, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, population, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics) |
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