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And this is the most controversial one.

There's all kinds of activity.

And before we knew it, it was a slum.

And they're incredible guys.

We start with poverty.

It's not crazy it's actually happening right now.

I was with my friend Susan Meiselas, the photographer, in the Mathare Valley slums.

We'd be choking to death for the rest of our lives.

I've lived in a slum all my life. Wait a minute.

Now, one in three people living in cities today actually live in a slum.

And this leads me to the tale of the second girl.

You know, by the way, there are two million people in Bangalore, who live in 800 slums.

These slums are a disgrace to the city.

There are many slums in Mexico.

Most people are still unemployed,

And right next to where I used to work, there was a slum.

See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book.

There are a lot of slums in Mexico.

This is Samuel. He's a farmer.

And I built a similar hole in the wall.

An old lady, crying, was carried out of her house and up the road by her son.

You know, born in a slum, mother dead since he was nine.

He was born in a slum. Slums are breeding grounds for criminals.

The title of my essay is... Mi Salida ... My Way Out.

Or you can go to places like this.

But they had not had any time to evacuate any belongings.

Due to a traffic jam, we were late in getting to a slum, a large slum, which had caught fire.

(Laughter)

What did the poor do wrong?

These events are ranged tremendously in size, shape and format.

Interestingly, I asked this question when I was a little kid.

Where there's a slum, there's crime. And District 9 was no exception.

It took me back to a time when I was about 12 years old.

The reason they went on studying was this.

So, he has hope, and this is where these communities start.

Bring infrastructure to the favelas, to the slums, wherever you are.

Remember I'm the black kid from the '60s who got his life saved with ceramics.

There must be something about you that's real.

Gather round. Now, as well as Mr. Sloman being off today, I'm afraid Ash is feeling a little bit under the weather.

It is not the case that slums undermine prosperity, not the working slums they help create prosperity.

This is Hosinia, the largest and most urbanized favela in Rio de Janeiro.

There are a lot of ways you can describe this.

I had an office in those days which bordered a slum, an urban slum, so there was a dividing wall between our office and the urban slum.

The picture on India is the Dharavi slum of Mumbai in India.