Giving slum dwellers an address

Teresa García Alcaraz describes a project in Caracas where a local professor of architecture is helping slum dwellers name their streets and pathways, which had never been done before. 

Julián Blanco residents would no longer have to say, for example, that they lived in the yellow house next to the stairs just before the place where Pablo’s grocery shop is, and after the blue metal door where Luís used to repair motorbikes.

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