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LEDC UrbanisationShanty Towns

What are favelas?

• ‘Favela’ is the Brazilian word that is used to describe shanty towns, or squatter settlements

• People move to these areas from the countryside around Brazil

• This is the worst form of urbanisation- people end up living in very bad conditions with a poor quality of life.

Why does urbanisation happen?

• What are the factors that ‘push’ them away from this type of countryside?

• This is in the Caatinga, a semi-arid area to the NE of Brazil

• Make a list of push factors in your book- title: ‘push factors from the Brazilian countryside’

• Sanitation• Crime• Living conditions• Quality of the

housing• No sewerage• Clean water• Jobs and money• Drugs