Buenos Aires Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Urban problems=== [[File:Villa_31_de_Buenos_Aires.jpeg|thumb|[[Villa 31]], a ''villa miseria'' in Buenos Aires]] [[Villas miserias|''Villas miseria'']] are a type of slum whose size ranges from small groups of precarious houses to large communities with thousands of residents.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Van Gelder | first1 = J.L. | last2 = Cravino | first2 = M. C. | last3 = Ostuni | first3 = F. | year = 2016 | title = Housing informality in Buenos Aires: Past, present and future? | journal = Urban Studies | volume = 53 | issue = 9| pages = 1958–1975 | doi = 10.1177/0042098015581801 | bibcode = 2016UrbSt..53.1958V | s2cid = 155447028 }}</ref> In rural areas, the houses in the ''villas miseria'' might be made of mud and wood. ''Villas miseria'' are found around and inside the large cities of Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba and Mendoza, among others. Buenos Aires has below {{convert|2|m²|0|abbr=on}} of green space per person, which is 90% less than New York, 85% less than Madrid and 80% less than Paris. The World Health Organization (WHO), in its concern for public health, produced a document stating that every city should have a minimum of {{convert|9|m²|0|abbr=on}} of green space per person; an optimal amount of space per person would range from 10 to {{convert|15|m²|0|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://plusnetwork.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/how-many-metres-of-green-space-does-your-city-have/|title=How much green space does your city have?|last=sustainablecitiesnetwork|date=13 July 2011|work=wordpress.com|access-date=7 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013023002/https://plusnetwork.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/how-many-metres-of-green-space-does-your-city-have/|archive-date=13 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.defensoria.org.ar/publicaciones/pdf/justa13A.pdf |title=Los Invasores|access-date=1 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522233438/http://www.defensoria.org.ar/publicaciones/pdf/justa13A.pdf |archive-date=22 May 2014}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page