For residents of the city’s casual housing settlements invisibility on the map can be deadly. A new digital mapping project is helping change thisIn Buenos Aires’ casual housing settlements,where an estimated 275000 of the city’s inhabitants live, invisibility on the map can be deadly.
In these labyrinthine neighbourhoods, or where roads twist and turn,many residents lie external the reach of public services. Earlier this year in the villa Rodrigo Bueno, a 13-year-old boy died after falling into a cesspit. The plunge did not cancel him: what took his life was the one-hour wait for an ambulance to arrive – and even then only to the outskirts of the sprawling slum.
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Source: theguardian.com