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Around the world, millions of poor residents of coastal cities live not on the shoreline but instead in slums built on stilts, as here along the Parola Binondo side of Manila’s harbor, or on floating aggregations of hundreds of rafts and boats, as is the case for some three hundred thousand people in Lagos’s Makoko slum. Such improvised developments provide cheap accommodations close to work in a city without a functioning mass transit system, but these coastal slums are increasingly exposed to disaster as sea levels rise and tropical storms intensify. Manila, Philippines.

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Around the world, millions of poor residents of coastal cities live not on the shoreline but instead in slums built on stilts, as here along the Parola Binondo side of Manila’s harbor, or on floating aggregations of hundreds of rafts and boats, as is the case for some three hundred thousand people in Lagos’s Makoko slum. Such improvised developments provide cheap accommodations close to work in a city without a functioning mass transit system, but these coastal slums are increasingly exposed to disaster as sea levels rise and tropical storms intensify. Manila, Philippines.

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