...finding 'unseen city' described this book. Several of the migrant settlements that had proliferated on patches of customary land within the city boundary had become showplaces, proudly exhibited by local Housing Commission officials as examples of a self-help society where even the very poor could make a home for themselves with a little government assistance. First stop from the airport on my last visit, in 2002, was the security office at the Australian High Commission where I was handed a two-way radio and told to keep it on all the time as...

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