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Medellin revised

I enjoyed a few days in Medellin, Colombia, a city of about 2.5 million people that recently lost the title of “Most Dangerous City in the World.”   That’s what made me want to go there, to see what changed and how.  In the world of thinking about cities, the Medellin turnaround is famous.

August 23, 2018 By David Prowler

(Originally published on the David Prowler blog as “Medellin” on August 14, 2018)

Medellin saw an enormous population growth from the countryside, entire communities driven out by the decades-long warfare among the radical Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC), paramilitaries, the Colombian army, drug traffickers – and their shifting alliances.  The United Nations estimates that 7 million people were displaced within Colombia – more than in Syria or Iraq or any other war zone.  Many of them set up “informal” communities on the mountain slopes surrounding Medellin.

Medellin revised

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Planning, Revitalization, San Francisco Bay Area, Transportation, Travel Tagged With: Columbia, gondolas, Medellin, Metrocable, Moravia

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