Meet the mailman who mapped Rio’s slums before Google could

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By Eve AndrewsOct 13, 2014, 5:24 pm71 pts
There are a lot of potential negative impacts of rapid and expansive urbanization: Stress on limited resources, decreases in air quality, insane traffic jams, to name just a few. One that may not be as readily obvious: not being able to get your mail because your house does not have an address. Rio de Janeiro…

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