Men work at a construction site for a residential skyscraper in Shanghai. Urban development patterns should encourage good neighbourliness between the rich and poor, fostering camaraderie rather than promoting class hatred. Photo: AFP
Men work at a construction site for a residential skyscraper in Shanghai. Urban development patterns should encourage good neighbourliness between the rich and poor, fostering camaraderie rather than promoting class hatred. Photo: AFP
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Forced evictions are destroying society in China, and elsewhere

Mathias Agbo Jnr says a development model that forcibly takes homes away from the poor to cater to the privileged classes only feeds resentment. Forced demolition creates more problems than it solves

Mathias Agbo Jnr

Updated: 2:54pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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Men work at a construction site for a residential skyscraper in Shanghai. Urban development patterns should encourage good neighbourliness between the rich and poor, fostering camaraderie rather than promoting class hatred. Photo: AFP
Men work at a construction site for a residential skyscraper in Shanghai. Urban development patterns should encourage good neighbourliness between the rich and poor, fostering camaraderie rather than promoting class hatred. Photo: AFP
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