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Originally Posted by wwmiv
The only places that don't have LOTS of examples are (a) Africa (because it largely never had sustained development and maintenance of these types of places over large spans of time) and (b) the major places that Brits colonized (Australia/New Zealand, Canada/United States), but nowhere in any of these countries existed anything like what was elsewhere prior to their colonization. That isn’t to say that places that existed weren’t substantial (Cahokia, for instance, and various places in the Southwest), they just built in an entirely different way.
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I wonder how often the shantytown was prevalent in human history. Depictions of places such as Sumeria, Khemet and Mesoamerican cities are always portrayed in artistic renderings as big monuments surrounded by a few huts and hovels, yet they were often seats of major empires. I wouldn't be surprised to find them in ancient Rome and Jerusalem also.