A Struggle for Shelter

Duration: 29

Year Published: 1990

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Deals with the problems of rapid urbanization common to developing nations, focusing on Quito, Ecuador. Dr. Jorge Hardoy, an urbanologist from Argentina, presents problems encountered by rural emigres to find or create shelter on the fringe of urban areas. Rapidly increasing population growth, accompanied by widespread rural poverty, forces drastic economic and political solutions to the plight of the many thousands of landless peasants who arrive in urban areas. Without an education or transferable technical skills, most of these emigres are denied official employment, and end up in clandestine, "unofficial" squatter settlements that lack even the most essential public services.

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