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A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which
are
nothing new in the history of cities, except for in their
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scale. Some cities have lost their original purpose and
have
not found new one. And any large or rich city is going to
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attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling
with hopes 64. ______
of prosperity which
are then often disappointing. There are
backward towns on the edge of Bombay
or Brasilia, just
as though there were on the edge of seventeenth-century
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London or early
nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is
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the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century
travelers
of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts
that was
to be found there, are very similar to descriptions
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of Mexico City today-the poor can still be numbered in
millions.
The whole monstrous growth re