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Online discussion hosted by UNICEF seeks solutions for urban poor

An online conversation about inequalities in today's cities is being moderated by UNICEF, eliciting comments that speak to social, political and spatial inequality, particularly the theme of rural-urban migration. First-person accounts on the site, The World We Want 2015, bring problems into sharp focus, writes Sarah Goodyear. "In a globalized economy," she writes, "the problems of these cities are everybody's business." The Atlantic Cities (1/15) LinkedInFacebookTwitterEmail this Story



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