Iudad juarez, mexico is a squatters settlement called anapra. In 1980, this was empty desert. By the 1990s tens of thousands of residents have staked out small plots and constructed makeshift homes. Most tie into the power lines illegally and run lamp wires over the sand to light their homes. 1994 we visit Concha Martinez for the first time living in this tarpaper shack. Like thousands of her neighbors, she has no Running Water or sewers, no title to her land. A single mother, concha built this oneroom home for herself and her four children abel, 12, adrian, ten, wendy five, and the youngest, alexi. Their incredible struggle, and a tenar story of this place will illuminate some key geography themes, including scale has several meanings in geography. One is very specific having to do with ratios of distance on a map to actual distance on the ground. But it also has a more intuitive meaning related to the size of the area in question. Lets call this view of anapra a neighborhood scale. A
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