Sentences with phrase «sprawling urban slums»
Both during the games and today, mothers living in Rio's sprawling urban slums give birth weekly to microcephalic babies (children born with abnormally small heads and a range of other complications).
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Small rural towns have been decimated, while the population of urban slums and sprawling suburbs has greatly increased.
Combined with urban renewal and slum clearance programs, interstates destroyed and cut - off entire urban neighborhoods and facilitated suburban sprawl (itself subsidized through mortgage policies).