For reference, that's a square 15 feet on a side.
That said, it is interesting to see how the author gets all lachrymose about the demise of "a lawless, spontaneous mountain range constructed over 60 years from found bits of wood, corrugated metal and plastic sheeting, rising four or five storeys above the chemical-and-sewage-clotted mud."
Most of us would call it what it is: a sh*thole. The author most likely does not, and would not, live in such a place. The article reminds me a bit of Melville's short story, "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs," in which a rich man's romantic vision of the beauty of poverty is put to the test....
“Slumming it is better than bulldozing it “
I thought this was about New Orleans...
I honestly thought this was a New Orleans story.
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